holding that defendant’s evasive conduct after eye contact with police and observed departure from a building with a history of drug activity justified the stop
How later courts described this case
- holding that defendant’s evasive conduct after eye contact with police and observed departure from a building with a history of drug activity justified the stop
- stating “evasive conduct after eye contact with police, combined with his departure from a building with a history of drug activity, justified police in reasonably suspecting criminal activity.”
- holding that police officer was entitled to pat-down search a suspect “based on a reasonable suspicion that [the suspect] might be armed”
- stating that evasive conduct is relevant to determining whether weapons search is justified
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
SIMONETT, Justice
(dissenting).
I join Justice Coyne’s dissent.