State v. Cardenas-Muratalla

¶1 — To be valid under both state and federal law, a warrantless, investigatory stop, or Terry1 stop, must be reasonable, and it is the State’s burden to prove reasonableness. An investigatory stop is reasonable if the arresting officer can testify to specific and objective facts that provide a reasonable suspicion that the person stopped has committed or is about to commit a crime. In determining whether an investigatory stop and frisk is reasonable, courts look at the totality of the circumstances. The circumstances must suggest a substantial possibility that the particular person has…