Opinion ID: 6353417
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Heading: Fourth Amendment Principles & Terry Stops

Text: ¶21 The Fourth Amendment is 'indispensable to the full enjoyment of the rights of personal security, personal liberty, and private property.' Id., ¶9 (quoting 3 J. Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States § 1895 (1833)). It states: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. U.S. Const. amend. IV. As the text makes clear, 'the Fourth Amendment does not proscribe all state-initiated searches and seizures; it merely proscribes those which are unreasonable.' State v. Coffee, 2020 WI 53, ¶22, 391 Wis. 2d 831, 943 N.W.2d 845 (lead opinion) (quoting State v. Tullberg, 2014 WI 134, ¶29, 359 Wis. 2d 421, 857 N.W.2d 120); see also Brown, 392 9The circuit court made a sweeping statement toward the end of its remarks: Really, anyone that [the officers] encountered within a minute or two of receiving the alert should have been investigated if they were within a couple of blocks of the alleged shots being fired. The court of appeals concluded this statement was simply too broad to fit within the confines of Fourth Amendment law regarding stop and frisk procedures. State v. Nimmer, No. 2020AP878-CR, unpublished slip op., ¶30