Reasonable Suspicion

Question 1

Alabama v. White

Answer 1

To determine whether an informant’s tip provides reasonable suspicion, the totality of the circumstances must be analyzed, with attention given to the veracity and reliability and basis of knowledge of the informant

Question 2

What must officer’s be able to do to justify a Terry stop?

Alabama v. White

Answer 2

Must be able to articulate something more than an unparticularized suspicion or hunch

Question 3

Florida v. J.L. (2000)

Answer 3

Reasonable suspicion requires that a tip be reliable in its assertion of illegality, not only in its identification of a person

Question 4

Navarette v. California (2014)

Answer 4

A stop can be lawful when based on an anonymous tip if the tip can demonstrate a sufficient indicia of reliability to provide reasonable suspicion to make an investigatory stop

Question 5

Illinois v. Wardlow (2000)

Answer 5

a police officer may stop and frisk a citizen on the street if he has a reasonable suspicion that the person is armed and may pose a threat to the officer

Question 6

Is unprovoked flight from a high-crime area enough to give rise to reasonable suspicion?

Answer 6

Yes, unprovoked flight in a high-crime area amounts to reasonable suspicion to justify a stop and frisk

Question 7

Maryland v. Buie (1990)

Answer 7

• Warrants aren’t required to conduct a protective sweep incident to arrest
• Police are permitted to look in closets and other spaces immediately adjoining the place of arrest from which an atack could be launched as incident to an arrest