and as a lawyer, Hillary should have known that but it's politics. What's a little lie between idiots?
In 1968 the US Supreme Court heard a case about stop and frisk called Terry v Ohio. By a vote of 8 to 1 the Supremes found it to be legal and constitutional. It has not been heard by the court since then.
Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn
Just because Hillary had a law license (or does) does not mean she understands the Terry vs. Ohio decision, and in fact many lawyers (and judges) don't. The "Stop and Frisk" phrase as applied to Terry is a misnomer the way it is interpreted.
Terry vs. Ohio DOES NOT say that an officer can STOP a person and FRISK them. It simply does not say that, and the Court didn't "mean it" to say that. What it DOES SAY is
the OFFICER can STOP and talk to a person in public if the OFFICER has a "reasonable suspicion" that the person is committing a crime or about to commit a crime (nonspecified crime)... and if during the "conversation" the officer begins to feel threatened or unsafe (or believes the person may have contraband on him) then the OFFICER CAN PAT THE PERSON DOWN to FEEL for a weapon or contraband. That's what Terry vs. Ohio held.
Contrary to what you also said .... recently the Supreme Court ala Clarence Thomas reiterated what I just wrote .... and also contrary to what you said ....
.. in the same volume of the U.S. reporters (301?) just after Terry vs. Ohio, which is the first case in the volume, there is published the case of New York vs. Sibron, which is actually two cases on appeal combined into one opinion (the SCOTUS does that occasionally) and Sibron explains what the Court meant in Terry by taking two cases with different fact situations to emphasis when the Officer can STOP and when the Officer can PAT DOWN!
(fyi: The court has on occasion applied TERRY to cases and the concept ... for instance there was a Minnesota case in which the "Terry" principles were applied to traffic stops..... officer safety is an important issue in the SCOTUS.....AND so long as the officer can articulate reasonable facts based on the incident to justify "patting down" for weapons the Court will allow it.)
Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968) ... I was wrong about "301"
.. but not about it being the first case in the volume!