Trice v. United States

GLICKMAN, Associate Judge.

That police have legally sufficient grounds to stop a particular person who they suspect has committed a crime, see Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1, 88 S.Ct. 1868, 20 L.Ed.2d 889 (1968), is usually not a sufficient justification in itself for stopping the suspect’s companions or other bystanders too. But that usual rule tolerates exceptions for' exigent circumstances. In this case we hold that when police validly stopped a person whom they reasonably suspected of being armed, dangerous, and escaping from the scene of a violent crime, the police validly could stop the…