171 Ind. App. 658 - Clark v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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15 state decisions

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1. ““ ‘Although [the defendant] asserts that the information was received from a source where credibility and reliability were not established, when acting upon information received in a radio dispatch, a police officer is not required to ascertain the reliability and credibility of the initial source of the information. Moreover he must of necessity rely upon the communication system of the police headquarters where, as here, the use of an automobile compels officers to act with greater speed and less hesitancy. Manson, et al. v. State (1967), 249 Ind. 53 , 229 N.E.2d 801 , cert. denied, 390 U.S. 995 , 88 S.Ct. 1198 , 20 L.Ed.2d 95 . The reasonableness of an investigatory stop based upon information received in a radio dispatch must therefore be measured against the objective standard prescribed in Terry v. Ohio (1968), 392 U.S. 1, at 21-22 , 88 S.Ct. 1868, at 1880 , 20 L.Ed.2d 889 , where the court stated: “ ‘ “[WJould the facts available to the officer at the moment of the seizure or the search ‘warrant a man of reasonable caution in the belief’ that the action taken was appropriate? ” ’”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Cato v. State · Cato v. State