Is an anonymous telephone tip sufficient to provide reasonable suspicion for police to stop a suspect on suspicion of a series of violent crimes?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. Pimentel, C075824 (Cal. App. 2014):

suspect carrying out several of the predicted acts. (Alabama v. White (1990) 496 U.S. 325 [110 L.Ed.2d 301] (White) [finding sufficient indicia of reliability to provide reasonable suspicion for investigatory stop when anonymous telephone tip accurately predicted the defendant would leave a particular apartment at a particular time in a particular vehicle and drive to a particular motel].)

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