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Terry v. Ohio , 392 U.S. 1 (1968), was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the court ruled that it is constitutional for American police to "stop and frisk" a person they reasonably suspect to be armed and involved in a crime.
The Terry stop operates under the assumption that although stop-and-frisk is an intrusion, the potential harm from weapons outweighs it. [16] The cases following Terry expanded the power of the police. While the original case was concerned with armed violence and firsthand observation by officers, Adams v.
Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643 (1961) — incorporated exclusionary rule against the states; Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968) — stop and frisk for weapons OK for officer safety; Sibron v. New York, 392 U.S. 40 (1968) — companion case to Terry. Peters v. New York (1968) — companion case to Terry contained in Sibron
United States v. Hensley , 469 U.S. 221 (1985), is a unanimous decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that ruled that wanted posters create reasonable suspicion to detain and identify suspects that match descriptions contained in those posters.
Michigan v. Long, 463 U.S. 1032 (1983), was a decision by the United States Supreme Court that extended Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968) to allow searches of car compartments during a stop with reasonable suspicion.
The justices in the majority opinion sought to follow the precedent established in Terry v. Ohio. In Terry, the court ruled that a police officer acted lawfully when detaining three men who appeared to be acting suspiciously. The man named in the title of the case, John W. Terry, was unable to walk away and was forced to submit to a search ...
In Ohio, the nightmare of children who are forced into sex slavery doesn't always end when they escape the criminals trafficking them, advocates say. Instead, state laws have the potential to ...
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