Terry Stop
Legal definition for Indian law research
Definition
Terry stop, means a stop and limited search of a person for weapons justified by a police officer's reasonable conclusion that a crime is being or about to be committed by a person who may be armed and whose responses to questioning do not dispel the officer's fear of danger to the officer or to others compare reasonable suspicion, Terry v. Ohio, 392 US 1 (1968).
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