Reasonable Suspicion
You're accustomed to thinking in terms of justifying your search-and-seizure activities with "probable cause." But not every search or seizure has to be supported by PC. In some cases, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that particular searches and seizures need only "reasonable suspicion" to be constitutional—not the higher justification level of probable cause. What's the difference, and when is reasonable suspicion sufficient?In Ornelas v. U.S., the court said this: "Articulating precisel
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