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Suspecting

Suspecting, is a state of conjecture or surmise where proof is lacking: 'I suspect but I cannot prove' suspicion arises at or near the starting point of an investigation of which the obtaining of prima facie proof

Terry stop

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).

Acquittal

Fr.; quietus, Lat., to free, acquit, or discharged], a deliverance and setting free of a person from the suspicion or guilt of an offence; also to be free from entries and molestations by a superior lord, for

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Jealousy

of being jealous earnest concern or solicitude painful apprehension of rivalship in cases directly affecting ones happiness painful suspicion of the faithfulness of husband wife or lover

Secure

Free from fear care or anxiety easy in mind not feeling suspicion or distrust confident

Mistrustless

Having no mistrust or suspicion

articulable

: capable of being expressed, explained, or justified [police had observed drug sale and stopped defendant on reasonable suspicion that he was dealing drugs "National Law Journal"]

belief

conviction of the truth of something esp. based on a consideration or examination of the evidence compare knowledge, suspicion

frisk

The officer must be justified in his or her encounter of the suspect and must have a reasonable suspicion that the suspect is armed. The scope of the frisk must be limited to the discovery of weapons.

innocent purchaser

who purchases property for consideration in good faith and without knowledge of facts that would lead to the suspicion that the seller does not have good title

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