Terry stop

Terry stop
Ter·ry stop /'ter-ē-/ n [from Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968), case in which the right of police to stop and question a suspect was first discussed]: 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

Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. . 1996.

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