fur•tive
(fûrtv)adj.
1.
Characterized by stealth; surreptitious.
2.
Expressive of hidden motives or purposes; shifty.
“When
I review evidentiary hearing transcripts for appeals, I cringe when officers
opine about what they saw defendants do. Officers are always 100% sure about
what was going on, whether their opinions match the facts or not. A lot of the
time, an officer’s opinion about what a defendant did can make a defense motion
fail. Any movement by a defendant is a “furtive gesture” suggesting he was
hiding something. If the defendant says his pants were falling down and he had
to pull them up, the cop will say the defendant was trying to hide something in
his pants.” Matt Brown, Attorney at law.