763 So. 2d 1249 - Solino v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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15 state decisions

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1. “Although the deputies were given the tip by a passing driver, for all practical purposes he was an anonymous tipster. His identity is unknown, any means of locating him is unknown, as are his motives for disclosing the information. He might have pointed out the Firebird because he was angered by its driver, ... or been the recipient of an obscene gesture, or for any reason other than the one he gave deputies. The deputies had no way to corroborate the information, and agreed at the hearing that they had not themselves seen anything that would have given them reason to stop the Fire-bird other than the tip.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Priddy

2. “[b]ecause an anonymous caller's basis of knowledge and veracity are typically unknown, these tips justify a stop only once they are sufficiently corroborated by police.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 959 So. 2d 1285 - Castella v. State

3. “the driver of the white SUV was nothing more than an anonymous tipster who could not be identified or located and whose information was not corroborated.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 959 So. 2d 1285 - Castella v. State