{"id":21404,"date":"2016-03-26T10:04:13","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T15:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=21404"},"modified":"2016-03-26T12:32:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T17:32:04","slug":"tx-being-a-known-criminal-on-the-street-at-2-am-in-a-high-crime-area-not-reasonable-suspicion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=21404","title":{"rendered":"TX: Being a \u2018known criminal\u2019 on the street at 2 am in a high crime area not reasonable suspicion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The officer \u201ccited the time of day, the area&#8217;s known narcotic activity, and his belief, based on what other officers had told him, that Appellant was a \u2018known criminal\u2019 as the reasons for detaining Appellant. The court of appeals concluded that the totality of these circumstances was sufficient to provide reasonable suspicion that criminal activity was afoot. However, we disagree that these circumstances were enough to support a conclusion that a reasonable suspicion to stop Appellant existed.\u201d Defendant was doing nothing else to even suggest illegal conduct. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.search.txcourts.gov\/SearchMedia.aspx?MediaVersionID=a0bd8954-c533-45cc-a6ef-5796391fde51&#038;coa=coscca&#038;DT=OPINION&#038;MediaID=19431c40-d5bb-412e-a61b-4ad999cd77a2\">Brodnex v. State<\/a>, 2016 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 58 (March 23, 2016).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The officer \u201ccited the time of day, the area&#8217;s known narcotic activity, and his belief, based on what other officers had told him, that Appellant was a \u2018known criminal\u2019 as the reasons for detaining Appellant. The court of appeals concluded &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=21404\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21413,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21404\/revisions\/21413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}