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Criminal Procedure Keyed to Miller
John Terry v. Ohio
Citation:
392 U.S. 1 (1968)Facts
An officer observed Terry (defendant) and Chilton (co-defendant) walking back and forth past some stores, stopping repeatedly to look into one specific store window. The officer saw the defendants repeat these motions five or six times. A third man, Katz, briefly spoke with the defendants before walking away. The officer believed the men were planning to rob the store and decided to approach them. The officer stopped them, identified himself as a police officer, and asked for their names. He then grabbed Terry, patted down his outer clothing, and felt a pistol in his left breast pocket. At this point, he ordered Terry, Chilton, and Katz inside the store and conducted a search of each of their persons. He removed a .38-caliber revolver from Terry’s overcoat and another revolver from Chilton’s overcoat, but he did not find weapons on Katz. Terry and Chilton were charged with carrying concealed weapons.
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