[DOWNLOAD] "State V. Hill" by Supreme Court of Alabama ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: State V. Hill
- Author : Supreme Court of Alabama
- Release Date : January 01, 1996
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 54 KB
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We granted the State's petition for certiorari review to determine whether a police officer was justified in conducting an investigatory stop of an automobile based on an informant's tip that two named suspects had been selling crack cocaine from the vehicle approximately two hours earlier. The Court of Criminal Appeals, with an unpublished memorandum, held that the stop violated the Fourth Amendment as applied to the states through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and, therefore, that the evidence should have been suppressed. State v. Hill, 683 So.2d 1074 (Ala. Crim. App. 1996) (table). We conclude that the stop in this case was consistent with the