State v. Henry’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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1. “A. Correct. Q. And likewise there wasn't any reason as your conversation with Mr. Henry progressed to think that any specific reason—I mean to think that he had just committed a crime? A. Well, I just knew he was a lot more nervous than the majority of people I do stop, and like I say I have been involved with law enforcement now for six years between working at different places, two years as a Reserve down at Prosser as well as four years here. I believe I have a very good feel for people, you know, upon contacting them. Yes, I have been pulled over before in my past before and I am nervous, too, but generally it will be for a traffic violation, like normal people.”

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   e.g. State v. Henry

2. “State v. Barwick, 66 Wash.App. 706, 710 , 833 P.2d 421 (1992). Although Deputy Small testified, based on his experience, that Mr. Henry appeared more nervous than normal, the officer on cross-examination was not able to articulate a basis for his conclusion. Therefore, at the time Deputy Small escalated the routine traffic stop into a Terry stop, he had no objectively reasonable basis for the search. The detention was not a legitimate Terry stop. Deputy Small hinted at what may have been his real motivation for the detention when he testified he told Mr. Henry he”

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   e.g. State v. Henry

3. “A. Correct. Yeah, him looking at the floorboard. Q. But again you didn't have any reason—any specific reason you can point to to think this man had just been involved in a crime? Let me be more specific. You didn't have anything like a police report saying there was a burglary with a car that was somewhat similar to this man's—the car this man was driving, I mean? A. Okay. No, sir, I didn't.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Henry