What is the test for reasonable suspicion of criminal activity under the Fourth Amendment?

MultiRegion, United States of America

The following excerpt is from United States v. Ojudun, 915 F.3d 875 (2nd Cir. 2019):

It is well established that, consistent with the Fourth Amendment, a "government law enforcement agent may subject an individual to an investigative stop upon a reasonable suspicion that the individual is, has been, or is about to be engaged in criminal activity. ... The agent is said to have a reasonable suspicion when he is in possession of specific and articulable facts which, taken together with rational inferences from those facts, reasonably warrant [the] intrusion. " United States v. Villegas , 928 F.2d 512, 516 (2d Cir. 1991) (quoting

[915 F.3d 883]

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