Sims v. the State’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “the totality of the circumstances must show that the officer had specific and articulable facts which, taken together with rational inferences from those facts, provided a particularized and objective basis for suspecting the particular person stopped of criminal activity. Although an investigative stop cannot be based on an officer's mere hunch that criminal activity is afoot, this process allows officers to draw on their own experience and specialized training to make inferences from and deductions about the cumulative information available to them that might well elude an untrained person.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 348 Ga. App. 638 - In the Interest of A.P., a Child