Holt v. State

I respectfully dissent. “An authorized officer may stop an automobile and conduct a limited investigative inquiry of its occupants, without probable cause, if he has reasonable grounds for such action; a founded suspicion is all that is necessary, some basis from which the court can determine that the detention was not arbitrary or harassing. The Fourth Amendment does not require a policeman who lacks the precise level of information necessary for probable cause to *55arrest simply to shrug his shoulders and allow a crime to occur or a criminal to escape.” (Citation omitted.) Williams v. State,…