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Reasonable Suspicion – Stop – Basis – Unidentified Cell Phone Caller
Paul Rutzinski, 2001 WI 22, affirming unpublished opinion of court of appeals
For Rutzinski: Craig A. Mastantuono, Maureen Fitzgerald
Issue: Whether an unidentified motorist’s cell phone report of suspicious driving justified a stop.
Holding:
¶38 In sum, we hold that the tip in this case provided sufficient justification for an investigative stop of Rutzinski. First, the tip contained sufficient indicia of the informant’s reliability: the information in the tip exposed the informant to possible identification and,
Reasonable Suspicion – Stop – Basis – anonymous tip
State v. Roosevelt Williams, 2001 WI 21, on remand, 529 U.S. 1050 (2000), previous history: State v. Roosevelt Williams, 225 Wis. 2d 159, 591 N.W.2d 823 (1999); State v. Williams, 214 Wis. 2d 412, 570 N.W.2d 892 (Ct. App. 1997)
For Williams: Melinda Swartz, SPD, Milwaukee Appellate.
Issue: “(W)hether an anonymous tip containing a contemporaneous report of drug trafficking,
Reasonable Suspicion – Stop – Basis – Identified 911 Caller
State v. Michael A. Sisk, 2001 WI App 182
For Sisk: Elvis Banks
Issue: Whether the police had reasonable suspicion to stop, based on information from a 911 call made from a payphone by an informant who provided nothing other than a name by way of identifying himself.
Holding:
¶8. Here, because the caller gave what he said was his name, the trial court erred in viewing the call as an anonymous one.