N.D.Ohio: 911 call about attempted carjacking led to RS

“Under these circumstances, I find the 911 call contained sufficient indicia of reliability to support Carpenter’s belief in the facts alleged by the caller. Thus, Carpenter was justified in believing there was a man named Dominic, who owned a gun, and was attempting to steal the caller’s car at the address provided, all of which strongly supports a reasonable belief that the individual he encountered minutes later was engaged in criminal activity.” United States v. Wright, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 47583 (N.D. Ohio Mar. 15, 2021).*

“In isolation, not all of these facts would necessarily justify a Terry stop. But the court finds that in the aggregate they gave rise to the officers’ reasonable suspicion that criminal activity was afoot.” Moreover, “the officers reasonably relied in objective good faith on the computer records showing Defendant’s outstanding warrants. The court concludes that the officers’ conduct was not ‘sufficiently deliberate’ that exclusion could meaningfully deter it, and was not ‘culpable’ in any sense that would warrant deterrence in the first place. See Herring, 129 S. Ct. at 702.” United States v. Walker, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 47011 (S.D. Tex. Mar. 12, 2021).*

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