754 So. 2d 154 - Baker v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “The officer had no reasonable grounds for suspicion that the closed business had been or was about to be burgled. Even the additional fact that another person, who so far as the officer knew was unconnected with Baker, was walking near the closed business does not help. Baker's effort to leave the area after the adjustment, or feigned adjustment, of his battery was nothing more than walking away from the officer.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 894 So. 2d 115 - State v. Baez

2. “got out of the van, lifted the hood, tinkered with the engine, got back into the van, started the engine and, with a thumbs up sign to the officer, pulled away from the curb.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 894 So. 2d 115 - State v. Baez

3. “[i]f Baker's actions are sufficient to warrant a Terry stop, then anyone who parks in a business area late at night would be subject to a Terry stop.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 803 So. 2d 880 - Young v. State