Stop and Frisk

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1. What is the characteristic scope of a stop-and-frisk protective search described in Sapla?
2. Is a mere hunch enough to justify stop and frisk?
3. Does stop and frisk permit the officer to ignore whether the person may have a concealed weapon?
4. An officer receives only an unverified tip about a person and observes no supporting suspicious conduct or weapon-relat…
5. A frisk begins lawfully as an outer-clothing weapon check. The officer then proposes a broad search of unrelated person…
6. Officers stop a peaceful traveler solely on an anonymous accusation, open an opaque sack rather than pat outer clothing…
7. An officer asserts that years of experience permit a frisk of anyone at random without identifying any surrounding cond…
8. Explain the basis and scope of stop and frisk.
9. Why is an unverified tip alone not automatically a sufficient stop-and-frisk basis?
10. Distinguish a limited frisk from an extensive search of baggage.
11. Under Malacat, must the grounds for a protective frisk be assessed from facts available before it rather than the contr…
12. In Malacat, did the Court accept rapidly moving eyes alone as an adequate factual justification?