State v. Lund

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

*37O’HERN, J.

The Attorney General informs us in his brief:

One study of State Police officers killed nationwide in the line of duty from September 1976 to September 1982, shows that 40 percent of the troopers killed by gunfire were fatally wounded while making traffic stops.

Of such reality, Chief Justice Hughes spoke some years back:

Such continuing trends would make even more relevant today the prophetic warning of the United States Supreme Court in Terry v. Ohio, [392 U.S. 1, 88 S.Ct. 1868, 20 L.Ed.2d 889 (1968)] dealing with police exposure and…