California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Mendoza, 258 Cal.Rptr.3d 249, 44 Cal.App.5th 1044 (Cal. App. 2020):
Officers may properly "draw on their own experience and specialized training to make inferences from and deductions about the cumulative information available to them that might well elude an untrained person. " ( United States v. Arvizu (2002) 534 U.S. 266, 273, 122 S.Ct. 744, 151 L.Ed.2d 740 ( Arvizu ).) However, the officer's suspicion must be objectively reasonable. "[T]he facts must be such as would cause any reasonable police officer in a like position, drawing when appropriate on [their] training and experience ... to suspect the same criminal activity and
[258 Cal.Rptr.3d 255]
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