People v. Flores
Annotate this CaseThe Court of Appeal affirmed the trial court's denial of defendant's motion to suppress evidence of drugs and a firearm, holding that the trial court correctly concluded that the facts taken together justified the Terry stop. In this case, defendant saw police and tried to avoid contact with them by ducking down behind a parked car; during defendant's ducking and crouching, he was "toying with his feet" and did not freeze or remain still; and as police approached in an obvious way "with a huge light on him," defendant persisted in his odd crouch position for "far too long a period of time." The trial court concluded that defendant's conduct was more than enough to find there were articulable facts to find suspicion and enough for the officers to detain him, enough for the officers to thereafter question him about identification.
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