
Terry v. Ohio
5-4
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The Fourth Amendment and the Stop and Frisk
The court says that while this is a search and seizure under the Fourth Amendment, it was so brief and limited that it does not require probable cause. The court says that this is constitutional under a completely separate standard called reasonable suspicion which they entirely made up on the spot. And according to the opinion, Fourth Amendment reasonableness applies to both the stop and the frisk.
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