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Search & Seizure – Consensual Encounter – Reasonable Suspicion – ‘High-Crime’ Area

By Deborah Elkins
Published: May 20, 2008

A detailed examination of a detective’s encounter with a defendant in a high-crime neighborhood known for drugs and guns, showing the detective’s increasing suspicions about what defendant had in his pocket, provided reasonable suspicion for the detective to seize defendant and the district court did not err in denying defendant’s motion to suppress the drugs found in his pocket, the 4th Circuit holds.
U.S. v. Black (USCA) (VLW 008-2-088) (17 pp.)


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