United States v. Kevin R. Smith, Dalian C. Stewart, and Steve Taylor

ALDISERT, Senior Circuit Judge.

These consolidated appeals from sentences imposed following conditional guilty pleas require us to meet a complex problem associated with the temporary detaining of a person by the police under circumstances governed by the teachings of Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1, 88 S.Ct. 1868, 20 L.Ed.2d 889 (1968), and its progeny, familiarly known as a Terry stop. Such a stop usually implicates Fourth Amendment ramifications concerning reasonable “seizure” of the person or probable cause to make an arrest. These issues are present here where appellants were not only detained…