Leahy v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
August 2001
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · 626 So. 2d 185 - Popple v. State · Whiting v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“had no information from which it could be inferred that the firearm was of an illegal type or that it was unlawfully possessed or displayed. Since merely possessing a firearm in a vehicle is not, by itself, a crime, the officer did not have a reasonable suspicion sufficient to justify the search of appellant's vehicle.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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