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Search & Seizure – Anonymous Tip – Investigative Stop – DUI Arrest

By Deborah Elkins
Published: November 3, 2008

Although police could corroborate some elements of an anonymous tip – the driver’s shirt, the color and make of his car, a partial license plate number and his direction of travel – the tip did not predict specific criminal activity and the Supreme Court of Virginia reverses the DUI conviction.
Harris v. Commonwealth (Va.S.Ct.) (VLW 008-6-104) (22 pp.)


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