637 So. 2d 741 - State v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “Utilizing the factors listed in Tucker, we find that defendant’s “actual stop” was not imminent at the time he abandoned the evidence. Officer Brown was fifteen feet away during his observation of defendant and did not approach defendant with his weapon drawn. Also, both defendant and the officer were on foot, and the encounter occurred in broad daylight with no one else around, when Officer Brown was the only officer in the area. Under these circumstances, we find that defendant was not in imminent danger of being “actually stopped” by Officer Brown. Therefore, even if Officer Brown initially lacked reasonable suspicion for a stop of defendant, once defendant abandoned the matchbox containing cocaine, reasonable suspicion for the stop of defendant and seizure of the matchbox certainly existed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 669 So. 2d 513 - State v. Birtha