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Petitions for Discretionary Review

Supreme Court of North Carolina
Jan 1, 1981
302 N.C. 633 (N.C. 1981)

Summary

holding officers had a justifiable reasonable suspicion that the occupants of a vehicle might be engaged in criminal activity and that these officers were within the limits of the Fourth Amendment in making an investigatory stop of the vehicle when the officers saw the vehicle drive down a one lane dirt road in a heavily wooded, seasonably unoccupied area in the late evening, in rainy weather where reports of "firelighting" deer had occurred, and where the officers knew a number of seasonal residences were on the dirt road, only one of which was occupied at the time

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Opinion

1981


Summaries of

Petitions for Discretionary Review

Supreme Court of North Carolina
Jan 1, 1981
302 N.C. 633 (N.C. 1981)

holding officers had a justifiable reasonable suspicion that the occupants of a vehicle might be engaged in criminal activity and that these officers were within the limits of the Fourth Amendment in making an investigatory stop of the vehicle when the officers saw the vehicle drive down a one lane dirt road in a heavily wooded, seasonably unoccupied area in the late evening, in rainy weather where reports of "firelighting" deer had occurred, and where the officers knew a number of seasonal residences were on the dirt road, only one of which was occupied at the time

Summary of this case from State v. Holmes
Case details for

Petitions for Discretionary Review

Case Details

Full title:PETITIONS FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

Court:Supreme Court of North Carolina

Date published: Jan 1, 1981

Citations

302 N.C. 633 (N.C. 1981)

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