Assignment 1: Terry v. Ohio

Strother Bracy

LEG110

May 17, 2015

Professor Aaliyah Muhammad

Summary

Terry v. Ohio has been and will forever remain a controversial case, due to it being responsible for the modification of standards governing police-citizen interactions under the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution, concerning probable cause, and stop and frisk.  The incident in question took place on Halloween, October 31, 1963 in the city of Cleveland, Ohio.  Martin McFadden, a plain clothes detective for the city of Cleveland, observed three men, later identified as John W. Terry, Richard D. Chilton, and Carl Katz, doing what was described by detective McFadden, as pacing back and forth near the corner of Euclid Avenue and Huron Road, repeatedly glancing into the window of a store. These guys would take turns doing this, one after the other and then would convene and converse with one