00:00Look at the marked patrol vehicle and then change directions.
00:02You know how many people just look at a police car? I do too.
00:04When this prosecutor presented an evading arrest case based on a suspected hand-to-hand drug deal,
00:09the judge questioned whether there was enough evidence to move the case forward.
00:12The officer observed the defendant speaking to two other individuals and conducting a hand-to-hand transaction.
00:17The officer stopped his vehicle near the defendant, and when the defendant saw the officer, he started leaving on his
00:21bicycle.
00:21The officer began to follow the defendant, and the defendant actively avoided the officer by changing directions frequently.
00:26The officer stopped the car and told the defendant to stop.
00:28The defendant continued to flee until losing his balance on his bike, and the defendant stated he did try to
00:32flee because he had an active parole part.
00:34What was he doing wrong?
00:34The officer observed what appeared to be a hand-to-hand narcotics transaction.
00:37Okay, was the other person doing it? Did they find any dope?
00:40Probably found any dope, but what they did observe was him on his bike and stopping with someone else.
00:44And didn't even notify himself as police.
00:45You know, one of the conditions on an evading arrest is you have to notify that you're a police officer.
00:50You can't just yell, stop.
00:51All right, let me see the gyms.
00:52Sure.
00:52I do have that the officer was riding in a marked patrol vehicle as he was following the defendant.
00:56So there is that as well as...
00:59Is that implying?
01:01My guy was on a bicycle.
01:02He was riding a bike.
01:04And that's when they were following him in the marked patrol vehicle while he was on his bicycle and yelling
01:07at him to stop.
01:08Did they find any evidence of a narcotics transaction?
01:10They obviously didn't find him with any dope.
01:11Did they find him with like a large cash?
01:13What is your argument?
01:14Well, my argument is that he was just riding his bike.
01:16In the dims, it does say, and I quote, the defendant looked at me and attempted to flee.
01:21I don't know how you attempt to flee.
01:22Well, I guess just go the other way from him.
01:24That's fleeing though.
01:25And then it says in the dims as well that the officer observed the defendant look at the marked patrol
01:28vehicle and then change directions as he viewed...
01:31You know how many people do that?
01:31You know how many people just look at a police car?
01:33I do it too.
01:34He's also riding here too.
01:35He's riding a bicycle.
01:36He needs to pay attention to traffic.
01:37You know, the only thing is that that took place after the what appeared to be a hand-to-hand
01:41narcotics transaction.
01:41That's what the officer wrote in the dims.
01:43Yeah, I'm not buying it.
01:44All right.
01:45Thank you, Judge.
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