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CT: Pedestrian citizen informant gave sufficient information for a stop

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

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Officers received information from a pedestrian citizen informant that the defendant tried to sell him drugs, and the officer started following the defendant’s car. Then there were furtive movements in the car by the driver and passenger, and the officer, after stopping the car, was concerned about guns. He handcuffed the driver and searched the car finding a .25 Baretta. The informant did not want to disclose his identity, but that did not prevent there being RS. State v. Jarrell, 2009 Conn. App. LEXIS 153 (April 21, 2009)* (dissent here): Although the police could not be certain that the pedestrian lacked a motive to lie, there is nothing in the evidence to suggest that she had such a motive or that when she spoke with the police, at their behest, she knew that regardless of what she told the police, she would be free to go on her way...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on June 06, 2009 (boomark / email).

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