Legal Opinion
Florida v. J. L.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 28, 2000No. 98-1993PublishedCited by 1,546 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Ginsburg
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.
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On October 13, 1995, an anonymous caller reported to the Miami-Dade Police that a young black male standing at a particular bus stop and wearing a plaid shirt was carrying a gun. App. to Pet. for Cert. A-40 to A-41. So far as the record reveals, there is no audio recording of the tip, and nothing is known about the informant. Sometime after the police received the tip — the record does…
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