IL: Three Terry cases

Defendant was approached on the street by a uniformed officer because the officer did not recognize the defendant and because of robberies in the neighborhood. He told the defendant to get his hands out of his pockets and a gun was dropped. The stop was invalid for lack of RS. People v. Jackson, 906 N.E.2d 56 (Ill. App. March 30, 2009).*

Defendant’s stop was without reasonable suspicion. All the factors listed by the state were found by the trial court to be as consistent with innocent conduct as potential criminal conduct. State’s argument that defendant was subjected to a parole stop was waived for not presenting that argument to the trial court. People v. Vasquez, 2009 Ill. App. LEXIS 171 (February 11, 2009).*

Reasonable suspicion defendant was involved in a gang shooting justified a Long protective frisk of the car defendant was riding in. [Standing issue did not need to be resolved.] People v. Johnson, 2009 Ill. App. LEXIS 157 (January 8, 2009):

Thus, the narrow question before this court is whether a police officer, who has reasonable suspicion to believe that an individual was involved in a shooting that has just occurred, may conduct a limited protective search of the passenger compartment of a vehicle that the officer has just seen the individual get out of. We find that under those circumstances, consistent with Terry and Illinois law, a limited protective search of the passenger compartment of the vehicle for weapons is proper. See Long, 463 U.S. at 1049, ….