130 N.C. App. 368 - State v. McClendon’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2018
20 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Mapp v. Ohio · Florida v. Royer · Whren v. United States · United States v. Cortez
Most-quoted passages
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“10. Regarding his mobile data computer, there is not a normal response time for the information sought via the computer for reasons outside the deputy’s control, such as the amount of use of the system by others. 11. Sergeant Hart asked the Defendant in English where he was coming from and his length of stay. The Defendant responded in English that he was coming from New York and that he had been there for three or four days. Sergeant Hart explained to the Defendant in English that he was intending to issue the Defendant a warning ticket for the seat belt violation. The Defendant indicated that he understood what a warning ticket was. The mobile data computer operated slowly during the encounter, but ultimately began to provide information to Sergeant Hart regarding possible hits, that is, that people sharing the Defendant’s name or a variation thereof were wanted. Particularly, one such “hit” indicated that the wanted person had a tatoo on his arm. Sergeant Hart asked the Defendant in English to lift his shirt sleeve, and the Defendant did so. Sergeant Hart did not see the described tattoo. He continued his investigation of the Defendant’s identity, status of his driver’s license, and status of being wanted. Sergeant Hart called EPIC [the El Paso Intelligence Center, a national database for criminal activity, including narcotic activity] to search their records for the existence of warrants and prior illegal activity. As with his mobile data computer, the EPIC system operate”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he trial court's ruling on a motion to suppress is afforded great deference upon appellate review as it has the duty to hear testimony and weigh the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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