{"id":23374,"date":"2016-08-15T07:46:31","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T12:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23374"},"modified":"2016-08-16T06:53:22","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T11:53:22","slug":"w-d-va-a-completed-crime-doesnt-preclude-a-terry-stop-on-reasonable-suspicion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23374","title":{"rendered":"W.D.Va.: A completed crime doesn\u2019t preclude a Terry stop on reasonable suspicion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A completed crime doesn\u2019t preclude a Terry stop on reasonable suspicion. Besides that, the court finds probable cause. United States v. Truth, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 106651 (W.D.Va. Aug. 11, 2016):<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The court is not persuaded by Kelley&#8217;s arguments. First of all, Kelley&#8217;s contention that a Terry stop may not be conducted based on a completed crime, or at least not based on a completed misdemeanor, is not accurate. At the hearing, the court asked defense counsel the authority he relied on for the proposition that a crime has to be ongoing to justify a Terry stop, and he cited to Reid v. Georgia, 448 U.S. 438 (1980). (Tr. 95.) To be sure, Reid uses the present tense, stating that a Terry stop is lawful if supported &#8220;by a reasonable and articulable suspicion that the person seized is engaged in criminal activity.&#8221; 448 U.S. at 440 (emphasis added). But both the Supreme Court and the Fourth Circuit have expressed the standard much more broadly, describing a Terry stop as permissible &#8220;when the officer has reasonable, articulable suspicion that the person has been, is, or is about to be engaged in criminal activity.&#8221; United States v. Montieth, 662 F.3d 660, 665 (4th Cir. 2011) (emphasis added) (quoting United States v. Hensley, 469 U.S. 221, 227 (1985)).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A completed crime doesn\u2019t preclude a Terry stop on reasonable suspicion. Besides that, the court finds probable cause. United States v. Truth, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 106651 (W.D.Va. Aug. 11, 2016):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23381,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23374\/revisions\/23381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}