Jones v. State

In the watershed decision of Terry v. Ohio, 392 U. S. 1 (88 SC 1868, 20 LE2d 889) (1968), the United States Supreme Court held that a limited “seizure” of an individual is constitutionally permissible where the police have “specific and articulable facts” giving rise to a “reasonable suspicion” of criminal activity. Today, in apparent disregard of these constitutional requirements, a majority of the Court of Appeals of Georgia upholds a wholly unwarranted “seizure” of an individual in his automobile. To this inexplicable aberration from basic principles of constitutional law, I respectfully…