Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
New Jersey State Police officer conducting a traffic stop on the New Jersey Turnpike. For practical purposes, a traffic stop is essentially the same as a Terry stop; for the duration of a stop, driver and passengers are "seized" within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment. The Supreme Court has held that drivers and passengers may be ordered to ...
A traffic stop is usually considered to be a Terry stop and, as such, is a seizure by police; the standard set by the United States Supreme Court in Terry v. Ohio regarding temporary detentions requires only reasonable articulable suspicion that a crime has occurred or is about to occur. [ 1 ]
This fulfills only the second prong of Terry (the first prong—reasonable suspicion that a crime has, is or will be committed—is fulfilled by the traffic violation that prompted the initial stop). According to Whren v. United States, any traffic violation, no matter how small, is a legitimate basis for a traffic stop. [citation needed] In ...
Annotations for Wisconsin §968.24, however, state "The principles of Terry permit a state to require a suspect to disclose his or her name in the course of a Terry stop and allow imposing criminal penalties for failing to do so", citing Hiibel as authority. Hiibel held that statutes requiring suspects to disclose their names during police ...
The deadly traffic stop happened the night of Jan. 4, said Kannapolis Chief of Police Terry L. Spry in a news release. Around 10 p.m., a Kannapolis Police Officer patrolling North Cannon Boulevard ...
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
Berkeley, for instance, has been developing a new division that aims to send unarmed representatives to certain traffic incidents, instead of police, as the city works toward its goal of reducing ...
When the Embraer E135 jet operated by Colorado-based Key Lime Air "proceeded to cross the hold bars, air traffic controllers told the pilots to stop," the FAA said in a statement.