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  • California High Court Decides Police Can Act on Tips

    06/28/2006 2:46:29 PM PDT · by radar101 · 29 replies · 464+ views
    Officer.com ^ | 28 JUNE 2006 | MAURA DOLAN
    Law enforcement may stop and detain drivers based on anonymous and uncorroborated tips that they were driving while intoxicated, the California Supreme Court decided 4-3 Monday. The state high court ruled that the California Highway Patrol acted legally when it pulled over a woman outside Bakersfield, even though its officer did not personally note any evidence of impaired driving. The officer was responding to a telephone tip that the van was weaving. The driver, Susan Wells, 49, failed a sobriety test and was arrested. A subsequent search of her van found heroin. She was sentenced to 16 months in prison...