We find numerous guns and drugs after we talk to people on the corners also. If they're standing there loitering, we'll stop and talk to them, pat them down initially right off the bat for weapons so that we don't get shot while we're standing there. Like I said, we've had numerous problems there. My intention was to stop and talk to the boys, find out who they were and pat them down and just identify them, like we always do. The specific and articulable facts identified by Officer Cameron as justification for the stop are insufficient to create a reasonable suspicion of criminal activity.
Reasonable suspicion entails something more than an unparticularized suspicion or hunch.
Reasonable suspicion entails some minimum level of objective justification for making a stop. Reeves, the gun discovered as a result of the stop cannot be used against Reeves in a criminal prosecution. Reeves was convicted of carrying a handgun without a license, within one thousand feet of school property. Without the gun, there is no crime. Thus, Reeves's conviction is vacated.