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ALABAMA v. WHITE

No. 89-789.

496 U.S. 325 (1990)

110 S.Ct. 2412

110 L.Ed.2d 301

ALABAMA v. WHITE

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 11, 1990

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph G. L. Marston III, Assistant Attorney General of Alabama, argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the briefs were Don Siegelman, Attorney General, and Stacy S. Houston, Rosa Hamlett Davis, and Andrew J. Segal, Assistant Attorneys General.

David B. Byrne, Jr., by appointment of the Court, 493 U.S. 1054, argued the cause and filed a brief for respondent.*

JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court.

Based on an anonymous telephone tip, police stopped respondent's vehicle. A consensual search of the car revealed drugs. The issue is whether the tip, as corroborated by independent police work, exhibited sufficient indicia of reliability to provide reasonable suspicion to make the investigatory stop. We hold that it did.

On April 22, 1987, at approximately 3 p.m....

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