BASS v. COM.

Record No. 990894.

525 S.E.2d 921 (2000)

Roy Berger BASS v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

March 3, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry A. Pochucha (Coates & Davenport, on brief), Richmond, for appellant.

Marla Graff Decker, Assistant Attorney General (Mark L. Earley, Attorney General, on brief), for appellee.

Present: CARRICO, C.J., COMPTON, LACY, HASSELL, KEENAN, KOONTZ, and KINSER, JJ.


KOONTZ, Justice.

In this appeal, we consider whether a police officer's perception that a legal driving maneuver was made with the intent to evade a temporary traffic checkpoint is sufficient to give rise to a reasonable, articulable suspicion that the driver was involved in criminal wrongdoing, justifying an investigative stop of the driver's vehicle.

BACKGROUND

On March 24, 1997, Chesterfield County police officer William Shane Wickham was assigned...

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