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Appeals Court Weighs Whether Police Had Reasonable Suspicion in Stop After Confidential Tip
Summary
In an appeal from a stop and pat‑frisk, counsel disputed whether an uncorroborated tip that a young man displayed a gun provided reasonable suspicion; the Commonwealth cited rapid officer recognition on bodycam and raised reasonableness and inevitable‑discovery analogies.
The Appeals Court heard argument on a Fourth Amendment challenge in docket 25P299, where defense counsel Patrick Levin argued police lacked reasonable suspicion to seize and detain Daryl Dershen based on a confidential tip that a person matching a description had a gun.
Levin said the tip lacked the corroborative non‑obvious details courts require and relied on precedents (Barrows,…
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