CRM/LAW C144 Chapter Notes - Chapter TENNESSEE V GARNER: Flashlight
20 Jun 2017
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Underlying facts, the actual crime that took place. At about 10:45pm on october 3, 1974, memphis police officers elton hymon and. Leslie wright were dispatched to answer a prowler inside call : upon arriving at the scene, they saw a woman standing on her porch and gesturing toward the adjacent house. She told them that she had heard glass breaking and that they or. Someone was breaking in next door: while wright radioed the dispatcher to say they were on the scene, hymon went behind the house and saw someone run across the backyard. The fleeing suspect, who was appellee-respondent"s decedent, edward. Garner, stopped at a six-feet high chain link fence at the edge of the yard. With the aid of a flashlight, hymon was able to see garner"s face and hands. He saw no sign of a weapon, and though not certain, was.
