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OPTIONAL: Commonwealth v. Warren
This case doesn't directly address the evidentiary question of whether flight from poilice is relevant to guilt, but it addresses the related question of whether flight from police can give rise to reasonable suspicion in the Fourth Amendment context.
Spoiler alert: the court concludes "where the suspect is a black male stopped by the police on the streets of Boston, the analysis of flight as a factor in the reasonable suspicion calculus cannot be divorced from the findings in a recent Boston Police Department (department) report documenting a pattern of racial profiling of black males in the city of Boston."
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