California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Fernandez, B254191 (Cal. App. 2016):
Florida v. J.L. is distinguishable. The detention here was not based on an anonymous tip. The woman who told Deputy Fuentes which way "three male Hispanics" went was "anonymous" only in the sense that the deputy did not get her name. But even if we assumed that the woman provided an "anonymous tip," it had sufficient indicia of reliability. The deputy had just received a broadcast that an assault with a gun had occurred in the area, and that broadcast might have said that the suspects were three male Hispanics. Immediately after the "anonymous" woman told the deputy that three male Hispanics went "that way," the deputy saw three male Hispanics.
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