Farrow v. State

ROBERT M. BELL,

Judge, dissenting.

We learn today that when the police have reasonable articulable suspicion to effect a Terry1 type stop and frisk, *529either an arrest is not an arrest or it is irrelevant whether there has been an arrest. By so holding the majority lays to rest the lamentation, heard more and more in recent years, that only lip service is paid to the “general rule that seizures of the person require probable cause to arrest.” Florida v. Royer, 460 U.S. 491, 499, 103 S.Ct. 1319, 1325, 75 L.Ed.2d 229 (1983). Rather, the majority opinion makes patent that it is no longer necessary…