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Criminal Procedure Keyed to Allen
Florida v. J.L.
Citation:
529 U.S. 266 (2000).Facts
An anonymous caller reported to the police that a young black male standing at a particular bus stop and wearing a plaid shirt was carrying a gun. There was no audio recording of the tip or information known about the informant. Sometime after receiving the tip, two officers went to the bus stop and saw three black males hanging out there. One of three men was the Respondent, J.L. The Respondent was wearing a plaid shirt. Other than the tip, the officers had no reason to suspect any of the three men of illegal conduct. One of the officers approached the Respondent, told him to put his hands on the bus stop, frisked him, and seized a gun from his pocket. The second officer frisked the other two men and found nothing. The Respondent was ten days shy of his sixteenth birthday and was charged under a state law with carrying a concealed firearm without a license and possessing a firearm while under the age of 18. The respondent moved to suppress the gun as fruit of an unlawful search.
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