Woodson v. State

I respectfully dissent. Here, the conduct which eventually gave rise to the probable cause for arrest constituted a permissible police encounter, not an unlawful stop.

In Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1, 88 S.Ct. 1868, 20 L.Ed.2d 889 (1968), the United States Supreme Court noted that “there is nothing in the constitution which prevents a policeman from addressing questions to anyone on the street.” This is especially true if officers are responding to a call and are not acting on their own as in “roving patrol” cases. This means that there is a distinction between an intrusion by police amounting to…