55 Va. App. 30 - Smith v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions

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1. “In reviewing the denial of a motion to suppress evidence claiming a violation of a person's Fourth Amendment rights, we consider the facts in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth, the prevailing party at trial. The burden is on the defendant to show that the trial court committed reversible error. We are bound by the trial court's factual findings unless those findings are plainly wrong or unsupported by the evidence. We will review the trial court's application of the law de novo.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Com. v. Smith

2. “[t]he officers who entered the data into PISTOL were not shown to have done so based on any more information than that [Smith] had been arrested for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon for an incident that had occurred eleven months earlier and possession of cocaine with an intent to distribute for an incident that had occurred six months earlier.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Com. v. Smith

3. “in the absence of some contemporaneous indication that the individual might be carrying a weapon, these facts do not provide reasonable suspicion to believe he may be presently armed and dangerous.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Com. v. Smith