The Court of Appeal reverses the trial court’s denial of appellant’s motion to suppress, finding that appellant’s nervousness, the stop occurring in a gang territory where there had been an unrelated arrest a month prior, and appellant being with a gang-involved youth did not create reasonable suspicion that appellant was committing a crime. The court further held that the interaction between appellant and the officers transformed from a consensual encounter into a detention once the officers ordered appellant and his companions to step into the street and put their hands up, and the officers “advanced in a coordinated and simultaneous approach.”

The full opinion is available on the court’s website here: https://www4.courts.ca.gov/opinions/documents/B331298.PDF