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Analysis: Supreme Court rules that anonymous tip is not valid reason to stop and search someone for a gun

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From: All Things Considered (NPR)
Date: 20000328
Author:ROBERT SIEGEL, LINDA WERTHEIMER

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Analysis: Supreme Court rules that anonymous tip is not valid reason to stop and search someone for a gun

Host: ROBERT SIEGEL, LINDA WERTHEIMER Time: 8:00-9:00 PM

ROBERT SIEGEL, host:

This is NPR's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel.

LINDA WERTHEIMER, host:

And I'm Linda Wertheimer.

Today, the Supreme Court ruled that police may not stop and frisk a person based solely on an anonymous tip that he is carrying a gun. The court said that Miami police acted unlawfully in 1995 by searching and arresting a juvenile based on such a tip. The court's opinion was ...

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