Frisking

The legal precedent for what is known today as Stop and Frisk is a result of the Supreme Court case Terry v. Ohio (1968). In 1963, John W. Terry was arrested in Cleveland, Ohio and charged with possession of a concealed weapon. A police officer, acting on suspicion that Terry was planning to commit a robbery, detained him and patted him down. Terry and his lawyers claimed that his constitutional rights against unreasonable search and seizure were violated because the police officer did not have…

Midterm 1. Decide as an appellate judge based on the law that you have learned whether the police had a legitimate exigency based on the 4th Amendment and whether the trial judge should have suppressed the marijuana cigarette as evidence. In King v. State the trial judge should NOT suppressed the marijuana blunt as evidence. In this situation the police had "probable cause," meaning there was reasonable basis for the officers to believe that a crime may have been committed when they heard "Some…

RACIAL PROFILING Racial profiling means using the race or ethnicity of an individual to decide whether to enforce a law or not. Racial profiling may include various kinds of actions such as “racially-biased stop and frisk,” using race to make a traffic stop and ethnic discrimination. Racial profiling in the United States dates back to the 17th century when police officials were allowed to stop and detain Negroes. The practice has continued since that time despite the abolishment of slavery and…

Each had his own following, and there were some violent debates. At the Meetings Snowball often won over the majority by his brilliant speeches, but Napoleon was better at canvassing support for himself in between times. He was especially successful with the sheep. Of late the sheep had taken to bleating ‘Four legs good, two legs bad’ both in and out of season, and they often interrupted the Meeting with this. It was noticed that they were especially liable to break into ‘Four legs good,…