Discuss Terry V. Ohio. What happened in this case and why it is such an important case?

What will be an ideal response?


Answers should include how a veteran officer observed individuals and stopped them and frisked them without arrest.

This has had a daily impact on officers and defines the standards for the conduct of a warrantless stop and frisk searches.

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