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Old May 21, 2012, 06:59 PM   #40
Tom Servo
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RAS is an informal name for a doctrine police departments adopted. The general outline is in the Terry majority opinion:

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And in justifying the particular intrusion the police officer must be able to point to specific and articulable facts which, taken together with rational inferences from those facts, reasonably warrant that intrusion.
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