Can a police officer give reasonable articulable facts justifying his seizure and patdown of a suspect during a search and seizure?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Ricks, F066834 (Cal. App. 2015):
The officer in Terry v. Ohio was able to give reasonable articulable facts justifying his seizure and patdown based on the suspects' actions that reasonably showed they were checking businesses for a daylight robbery. (Terry v. Ohio, supra, 392 U.S. at p. 28.)
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