State v. Vann’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 20 state decisions

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1. “On June 25,1986, the manager of a Residence Inn hotel in Omaha called the Omaha police narcotics unit to inform the police that a resident of the hotel, Sidney Vann, was acting in an unusual manner in that he was paying his bill in cash and the hotel was having a hard time collecting the bill; in that Vann requested his room not be cleaned by the hotel’s personnel; in that many long-distance telephone calls were being made, particularly to California; and in that Vann left his room and returned at unusual hours, including visits to the hotel registration desk at 3 or 4 a.m. On June 30, 1986, the manager requested Vann to leave the hotel. Vann’s final bill was paid in cash after he had been locked out of his room to effect payment. At trial, the manager identified Vann as the defendant herein. The manager’s call to the police narcotics unit was noted in police records, but no actual investigation was made until July 1,1986, because of then-pending, ongoing narcotics investigations in other unrelated cases. On July 1, narcotics investigators went to the Residence Inn. On July 2, 1986, the owners of M3 Video, a videocassette movie rental store in Omaha, reported to a police officer, whose assignment was to investigate theft cases, that a person named Sidney Vann had rented six videocassette movies from M3 Video on June 23, 1986, that he had not returned the cassettes by June 30, and that those cassettes had a value of $360. The M3 Video owners informed the police theft investiga”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2 Neb. Ct. App. 946 - State v. Vann