JACKSON v. COM.

Record No. 031867.

594 S.E.2d 595 (2004)

267 Va. 666

Jerald Lorenzo JACKSON v. COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

April 23, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark L. Williams, for appellant.

Eugene Murphy, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Jerry W. Kilgore, Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellee.

Present: All the Justices.


CYNTHIA D. KINSER, Justice.

Relying on a tip from an anonymous informant, a police officer conducted an investigatory stop of an automobile in which the defendant was a passenger. The issue is whether the information from the anonymous caller, corroborated in part by police officers' observations, provided reasonable articulable suspicion to justify the investigative traffic stop. We conclude that it did not and that, therefore, evidence seized from the defendant...

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