context: We find, however, that, taken together as a whole, Alston's actions after he drove by the patrol car were sufficiently suspicious to provide Hixson with the requisite reasonable and articulable suspicion to stop Alston from walking away from the scene. Hixson's brief detention of Alston was therefore reasonable to allow the officer to confirm or dispel his suspicion and to maintain the status quo during the course of the lawful roadside investigatory stop.
citation_a.signal: see
citation_a.identifier: 419 S.E.2d 259, 259
citation_a.parenthetical: holding that a police officer's brief detention of a passenger who walked away from a lawfully stopped vehicle is warranted to promote the officer's "significant interest in gaining control of and monitoring a potentially hazardous roadside stop in order to conduct his lawful investigation," particularly when "events subsequent to the lawful traffic stop focus suspicion on [the] passenger"
citation_a.sentence: See Hatcher, 14 Va.App. at 491-92, 419 S.E.2d at 259 (holding that a police officer’s brief detention of a passenger who walked away from a lawfully stopped vehicle is warranted to promote the officer’s “significant interest in gaining control of and monitoring a potentially hazardous roadside stop in order to conduct his lawful investigation,” particularly when “events subsequent to the lawful traffic stop focus suspicion on [the] passenger”); see also United States v. Mancillas, 183 F.3d 682, 698 (7th Cir.1999) (finding that a police officer had reasonable suspicion to stop and briefly detain the defendant based, in part, on the defendant’s “quickly” exiting and walking away from his vehicle in a parking lot when the officer, responding to a radio dispatch, arrived at the parking lot and illuminated the defendant’s vehicle with a spotlight).
citation_b.signal: see also
citation_b.identifier: 183 F.3d 682, 698
citation_b.parenthetical: finding that a police officer had reasonable suspicion to stop and briefly detain the defendant based, in part, on the defendant's "quickly" exiting and walking away from his vehicle in a parking lot when the officer, responding to a radio dispatch, arrived at the parking lot and illuminated the defendant's vehicle with a spotlight
citation_b.sentence: See Hatcher, 14 Va.App. at 491-92, 419 S.E.2d at 259 (holding that a police officer’s brief detention of a passenger who walked away from a lawfully stopped vehicle is warranted to promote the officer’s “significant interest in gaining control of and monitoring a potentially hazardous roadside stop in order to conduct his lawful investigation,” particularly when “events subsequent to the lawful traffic stop focus suspicion on [the] passenger”); see also United States v. Mancillas, 183 F.3d 682, 698 (7th Cir.1999) (finding that a police officer had reasonable suspicion to stop and briefly detain the defendant based, in part, on the defendant’s “quickly” exiting and walking away from his vehicle in a parking lot when the officer, responding to a radio dispatch, arrived at the parking lot and illuminated the defendant’s vehicle with a spotlight).