720 So. 2d 749 - State v. Blasio’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “A stop in which a defendant is merely walking in a high crime area is unjustified”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 930 So. 2d 1028 - State v. Clay · 802 So. 2d 887 - State v. Vingle

2. “Deputies Ruiz and Letort while on patrol on Judge Perez Drive in St. Bernard Parish saw the defendant, a Caucasian, walking northbound at 2:18 a.m. in the 2500 block of Walkers Lane, a predominantly black area known for drug trafficking. The officers decided to stop the defendant and ask him for identification. As they were slowing the patrol car, they noticed he had placed something in the left pocket of his shirt. The officers stopped the defendant, placed him against the patrol car and frisked him but found no weapons or drugs during the patdown. They asked the defendant what he had put in his shirt pocket. He then took a plastic wrapping from a cigarette pack from the pocket. The plastic wrap contained four pills, which the defendant said belonged to his mother. Deputy Letort testified at the motion to suppress hearing that the defendant was advised of his right to remain silent before he spoke to the officers. Deputy Ruiz testified at the preliminary hearing as to the facts stated above. However, on cross-examination he acknowledged that when he first saw the defendant, the defendant was walking by himself, had not come out from any house and had no contact with anyone on the street. He also acknowledged that there was no one else in the immediate area when the two officers approached the defendant. At the motion to suppress hearing, Deputy Letort testified as to the aforementioned facts. On cross-examination he stated that he and Deputy Ruiz stopped the defendant becaus”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 802 So. 2d 887 - State v. Vingle