Nacu v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
June 2016
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Adams v. Williams · Alabama v. White · Florida v. JL · Ford v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“Considering the totality of the circumstances, Officer Hoffman’s seventeen years of police experience, and the reliability of Williams’ information, we hold Officer Hoffman corroborated enough facts to justify a temporary detention of Nacu. Williams ran into a parking lot while holding a cordless indoor-phone. She obtained Officer Hoffman’s attention by tapping on his police car’s window. She explained that she was the manager of a restaurant, a customer became intoxicated at her restaurant, and now the customer was attempting to drive away. There was a restaurant in the vicinity of Hoffman’s patrol car. Williams identified the intoxicated customer by pointing to the customer’s vehicle and describing it as the one that was trying to get through two metal poles. The metal poles were too narrow to allow passage of Nacu’s vehicle, and Nacu almost ran into them. Hoffman testified that Williams appeared trustworthy. Because of the immediacy and danger that intoxicated drivers pose to the public, Hoffman pursued Nacu without obtaining further identifying information from Williams.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Absent any context, Williams’ statement that Nacu was “too intoxicated to drive” is conclusory. However, Williams’ explanation that the driver of a vehicle had previously been in her restaurant, was intoxicated, and trying to drive through metal poles too narrow to accommodate a car, gave Hoffman specific, articulable facts that would allow a reviewing court to determine whether Nacu’s detention was objectively reasonable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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