Practice question
An officer receives only an unverified tip about a person and observes no supporting suspicious conduct or weapon-related circumstance. May the officer treat the tip alone as automatically satisfying the genuine-reason requirement?
- Yes, an anonymous tip always authorizes frisk
- Yes, any failure to greet the officer supplies it
- No officer may consider surrounding facts at all
- No
- A later discovery necessarily supplies the original basis
Legal references
- People v. Sapla, G.R.244045, June16 2020: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2020/jun2020/gr_244045_2020.html
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