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Officer lacked reasonable suspicion for stop

Where a Stafford County deputy initially offered to assist the plaintiff with his disabled vehicle, but then demanded the plaintiff produce identification, that demand converted the voluntary encounter into an investigatory stop for which the officer lacked reasonable suspicion of criminal activity and for which he was not entitled to immunity. Background George Wingate III was driving ...