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The judge concludes that evidence collected during the case of the suspect is inadmissible.
Why?
Because the only reason the police were chasing the suspect was the suspect’s running away from the police.
Running away from police, by itself, doesn’t create a reasonable suspicion of a criminal act.
If evidence is collected during an illegal chase, then it’s inadmissible.
The judge is trying to use the rule “if evidence is collected during an illegal chase, then it’s inadmissible.” But the author hasn’t established that the evidence collected was from an ILLEGAL chase. All that the author has established is that the police did not have reasonable suspicion of a criminal act when they began to chase the suspect. Does that make the chase illegal? We don’t know. We want a principle that establishes the following:
If police chase someone without reasonable suspicion that the person committed or is committing a criminal act, then that chase is illegal.
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