Mo Co stop and frisk-legal

[swinokur]

4th Circuit affirms Montgomery County stop and search as constitutional - Maryland Daily Record

Montgomery County police had reasonable suspicion to stop a man who fled from police, who conducted a constitutional search of the bag the man discarded, the 4th Circuit ruled.

thedailyrecord.com

 

[RFBfromDE]

Jeez, that’s hardly what I (most of us?) would regard as a stop and frisk.

As in drinking a 40 with my hand in my pocket minding my own business and being approached and frisked by the coppers without reasonable cause.

What can be more furtive than running away and discarding a bag?

 

[spoon059]

That's not a stop and frisk. That's an unprovoked free flight from officers, which has long been understand to establish reasonable articulable suspicion that crime is afoot, therefore giving police a lawful reason to detain the subject. Then, you have no right against a search of abandoned property. This isn't really news, this is just confirmation of what has been case law for decades.

But it isn't stop and frisk.

 

[RFBfromDE]

@spoon059 thank you.

Since hanging out here I had hoped my reading comprehension was improving.

 

[Mister F]

Yeah, this is open and shut. Not a stop-and-frisk. In fact, the bag was discarded. This took 5 years to get resolved? Perp was a FIP. That’s 5 years right there. He’ll be out of jail soon anyway!


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[AlBeight]

That's not a stop and frisk. That's an unprovoked free flight from officers, which has long been understand to establish reasonable articulable suspicion that crime is afoot, therefore giving police a lawful reason to detain the subject. Then, you have no right against a search of abandoned property. This isn't really news, this is just confirmation of what has been case law for decades.

But it isn't stop and frisk.

Freddy Gray approves of this post. Well.....sort of.

 

[BigTinBoat]

I remember back in (I think) the early 90's when they tried to pawn this action off as "Forced Abandonment". Rational was if the Police hadn't chased him, he never would have discarded the bag so they "Forced" him to drop it. Didn't work back then. Don't recall the defendant but remember it being CDS that he dropped, not a handgun.

 

[Blacksmith101]

Jeez, that’s hardly what I (most of us?) would regard as a stop and frisk.

As in drinking a 40 with my hand in my pocket minding my own business and being approached and frisked by the coppers without reasonable cause.

What can be more furtive than running away and discarding a bag?

But you get more clicks with an inflammatory or misleading title.

 

[swinokur]

I didn’t use a misleading title.

Don’t blame the messenger

 

[outrider58]

I didn’t use a misleading title.

Don’t blame the messenger


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[swinokur]

 

[spoon059]

The title of the article is stop (one action) and search (another action). Your title is stop and frisk (one controversial action).

 

[swinokur]

Oh my !

 

[RFBfromDE]

The title of the article is stop (one action) and search (another action). Your title is stop and frisk (one controversial action).

A Law Man AND a school Marm!

 

[RFBfromDE]

Oh my

 

[spoon059]

A Law Man AND a school Marm!

Wouldn't that make me a law ma'am...? Or are genders considered so fluid that they can switch mid sentence ?

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