State v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““As explained in the landmark ‘stop and frisk’ case of Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 , 88 S.Ct. 1868 , 20 L.Ed.2d 889 (1968), before a police officer may stop or detain a person for investigatory purposes, he must reasonably suspect that the individual has committed or is about to commit a criminal offense. There was no evidence presented in this case to indicate a suspicion on the part of the officers that the defendant fell into that category. Therefore, since the original detention of defendant was invalid, there was no justification for the officers to conduct a ‘pat-down’ of her. “Furthermore, as Terry also points out, while an officer is never justified in conducting a ‘pat-down’ for weapons unless the original detention was valid, a lawful detention for questioning does not necessarily give the officer the authority to conduct a ‘pat-down’ for weapons. Even after a lawful investigatory detention, an officer is justified in frisking an individual only under circumstances where a reasonably prudent man would be warranted in the belief that his safety or that of others was in peril. That belief is not reasonable unless the officer is able to point to particular facts from which he reasonably inferred that the individual was armed and dangerous. “A person may not be searched simply because he is present with others suspected of criminal activity or at a location where such activity is occurring. Ybarra v. Illinois, 444 U.S. 85 , 100 S.Ct. 338 , 62 L.Ed.2d 238 (1980). Consequen”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Simien