Reason to believe a person may be involved in criminal activity is not necessarily also reason to believe that person is armed and dangerous. Stop and frisk, therefore, more accurately should be thought of as stop and maybe frisk. But courts have conflated or ignored these two distinctive kinds of suspicion, inviting police officers to frisk automatically during an investigative detention, a practice that ignores the reasonableness requirement of the Fourth Amendment and subjects suspects to the indignity and intrusion of a search unsupported by any level of suspicion. This article explores some of the ways in which this undermining of Terry v. Ohio has occurred, and why the important values achieved by prudence should not be used casua...
The controversy surrounding the legality of police stop and frisk practices at last has been parti...
The threat of future terrorist attacks has sped the proliferation of random, suspicionless searches ...
The Terry doctrine, which grants a police officer the authority to stop and frisk based on his or he...
The plethora of law review articles and cases on search and seizure demonstrates the confusion and f...
Perhaps no decision of the United States Supreme Court concerning the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition...
The Fourth Amendment to the Federal Constitution protects individuals against unreasonable searches ...
Reports on Louis Stokes argument that upholding Terry\u27s frisking by Detective Martin McFadden wou...
Rarely has a court’s opinion, even one from the Supreme Court of the United States, so altered exist...
Terry v. Ohio changed everything. Before Terry, Fourth Amendment law was settled. The Fourth Amendme...
In Terry v. Ohio, the Supreme Court granted law enforcement broad power to perform a limited stop an...
Reports how the Court is hearing Terry v. Ohio along with 3 others cases with stop-and-frisk issues....
This Article confronts the growing tension between increasingly permissive concealed carry firearms ...
In Terry v. Ohio, the US Supreme Court relied on a balancing test to uphold the reasonableness of th...
State v. Andrews, 57 Ohio St. 3d 86, 565 N.E.2d 1271 (1991), cert. denied, 111 S. Ct. 2833 (interim ...
The Supreme Court of the United States held that a policeman is justified in making a search for wea...
The controversy surrounding the legality of police stop and frisk practices at last has been parti...
The threat of future terrorist attacks has sped the proliferation of random, suspicionless searches ...
The Terry doctrine, which grants a police officer the authority to stop and frisk based on his or he...
The plethora of law review articles and cases on search and seizure demonstrates the confusion and f...
Perhaps no decision of the United States Supreme Court concerning the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition...
The Fourth Amendment to the Federal Constitution protects individuals against unreasonable searches ...
Reports on Louis Stokes argument that upholding Terry\u27s frisking by Detective Martin McFadden wou...
Rarely has a court’s opinion, even one from the Supreme Court of the United States, so altered exist...
Terry v. Ohio changed everything. Before Terry, Fourth Amendment law was settled. The Fourth Amendme...
In Terry v. Ohio, the Supreme Court granted law enforcement broad power to perform a limited stop an...
Reports how the Court is hearing Terry v. Ohio along with 3 others cases with stop-and-frisk issues....
This Article confronts the growing tension between increasingly permissive concealed carry firearms ...
In Terry v. Ohio, the US Supreme Court relied on a balancing test to uphold the reasonableness of th...
State v. Andrews, 57 Ohio St. 3d 86, 565 N.E.2d 1271 (1991), cert. denied, 111 S. Ct. 2833 (interim ...
The Supreme Court of the United States held that a policeman is justified in making a search for wea...
The controversy surrounding the legality of police stop and frisk practices at last has been parti...
The threat of future terrorist attacks has sped the proliferation of random, suspicionless searches ...
The Terry doctrine, which grants a police officer the authority to stop and frisk based on his or he...