Florida v. J. L.

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 2000-03-28

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Justice Ginsburg delivered the opinion of the Court. The question presented in this case is whether an anonymous tip that a person is carrying a gun is, without more, sufficient to justify a police officer’s stop and frisk of that person. We hold that it is not. I On October 13, 1995, an anonymous caller reported to the Miami-Dade Police that a young black male standing at a p…

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