8 So. 3d 492 - Wallace v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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1. “On a Friday evening in -2007, a team of officers from- the Brevard; County Sheriffs Office was conducting a storefront operation at a 7-Eleven in Cocoa, -Florida. The area in which the 7-Eleven is located was “generally known as high crimes, high drug traffic area.” One of the officers, Sgt. Molyneaux, a sixteen-year veteran officer, was in plain clothes in an undercover truck parked in 7-Eleven’s parking lot looking for criminal activity, including drug sales. At about- 9:30 p.m., Sgt. Molyneaux saw Appellant drive into the 7-Eleven parking lot and park on the side of the building away from the general store traffic, although there were spaces available in front of the store. He concluded that Appellant looked “very nervous” because “[h]is eyes were very wide, and he was looking around a lot ... like he was looking for somebody.” While Appellant was in the store, he continued to look out toward the parking lot as if he was looking for -somebody. Minutes after -Appellant entered the -store, a white Buick entered the .parking lot quickly and abruptly stopped next to Appellant’s vehicle. Appellant exited the store, immediately walked over to the Buick and opened the passenger s side door. The Buick’s driver handed something to Appellant, who in turn handed something to the driver and shut the door. The Buick then sped off. Sgt. Molyneaux saw Appellant put something in his left front pocket then get into his vehicle and drive off. Sgt. Molyneaux was approximately forty feet from”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 187 So. 3d 349 - State v. James H. Watson