Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Smith v. United States
Smith v. United States, 444 U.S. 879 (1979)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1979-10-01
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- nervousness deemed consistent with behavior among innocent airport travelers and is entitled to no weight
- name, description, and flight on which individual arrived corroborated, tip also stated drugs would be delivered to known dealer--held sufficient to justify investigative stop
- although the stop was based on an anonymous tip, it involved some indicia of criminal activity verifiable by the police: the informant stated that the drugs were to be delivered to an individual the police recognized as a known drug dealer
Citator
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C. A. 8th Cir. Certiorari denied.