United States Sixth Circuit

An anonymous tip offered no reliable or meaningful information in support of reasonable suspicion, as it was not specific enough as to a prediction of future unlawful activities, and without the tip defendant's behavior was innocent and insufficient to provide the police with reasonable suspicion.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/15/2003
• Published 08/15/2003

Judges

• Before MARTIN, Chief Circuit Judge;  KENNEDY and DAUGHTREY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael Patterson, Mason, TN, pro se.


• For Appellees:
  
• John T. Fowlkes, Asst. U.S. Atty., Camille R. McMullen (argued and briefed), United States Attorney's Office, Memphis, TN, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Stephen B. Shankman (briefed), Randolph W. Alden (argued), Office of the Federal Public Defender, Memphis, TN, for Defendant-Appellant.