TERRY v. OHIO
United States Supreme Court
No: 67
Argued December 12, 1967
Decided June 10, 1968
392 U.S. 1
Citation: Terry v. Ohio. Terry is the plaintiff; Ohio is the defendant. The United State Supreme
Court decided in this case the year of 1967.
Facts: On October 19, 1963, Terry the plaintiff desired that his conviction for having a
concealed weapon arguing that the weapon that was gathered from his person was taken through
an unlawful search under U.S. Constitutional Amendment IV, and that the trial court faultily
revoked his motion to suppress.
Discussion: On assessment the court maintained Terry’s conviction.
The court ruled that even though the police officer did not have probable cause to arrest Terry,
Chilton and Katz at the time he made the “stop and frisk” invasion upon the plaintiffs that
produced the said weapon, the search gratified the contingent of U.S. Constitutional Amendment
IV, in that the police officer ( McFadden) had a legitimate suspicion, based upon his training,
that the plaintiffs and his comrades were about to carry-out a robbery, and he viewed that the
concluded that the plaintiffs were armed and on the brink of committing a criminal act.