CRJU 3315 Lecture 4: Crim Pro Ch 4
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Chapter 4: stop and frisk: reasonable suspicion, balancing test. Frisk: reason for public safety/ officer safety, nature of crime suspected ---- violent, clothes. Reasonable suspicion: objective facts (2 or more) ----- articulate, o. r. p (ordinary, reasonable, and prudent) officer, t. o. c (totality of circumstances, put objective facts together, individually they are not illegal, facts are not suspicious individually, crime is (cid:498)afoot(cid:499) Can stop or frisk based on objective facts if there is reasonable suspicion: informants and hearsay, anonymous tips. Anonymous information given to police about a crime: reliability. The judge asks whether the informant is known to the officer and considers whether the informant has been accurate in the past. The court will consider whether there is a statute that makes it a crime to make a false complaint and whether the informant personally approached the police: basis of knowledge. The judge also asks how the informant has obtained the information.
