What is Terry v. Ohio?
A 1968 U.S. Supreme Court decision that held that it is not a violation of the Fourth Amendment when a police officer stops a person on the street and frisks him if the police officer has a reasonable belief, based on articulable facts, that the person has committed, is committing, or is about to commit a crime.
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