Suspicion and searches

SAN FRANCISCO — The California Supreme Court ruled that police lacked reasonable suspicion to search a criminal defendant’s car. Though the search turned up drugs and a revolver, the evidence must be suppressed because his behavior in a high-crime area — ducking out of sight, fiddling with his shoes and refusing to acknowledge the police officers — were not acts of outright evasion, so and they did not combine to support a reasonable suspicion that he was involved in illegal conduct.