State v. Stout

¶ 1. The first question is whether the police entry into the apartment in this case can be justified under the Terry 1 doctrine where the statute and case law specify that the doctrine only applies to police-citizen confrontations in a public place. We hold that the doctrine only applies to stops made in a public place and police may not enter an abode based on Terry. The second issue is whether police must first have reasonable suspicion that someone inside a dwelling has committed a crime as a condition precedent to asking the owner for consent to enter and search the premises. We hold that…