Court Opinion

ID: 9423759
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:09:01.44019+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:22:45.942968
License: Public Domain

Mr. Justice White,
concurring.
I join Parts I-IV of the Court’s opinion. With respect to appellant Peters, I join the affirmance of his conviction, not because there was probable cause to arrest, a question I do not reach, but because there was probable cause to stop Peters for questioning and thus to frisk him for dangerous weapons. See my concurring *70opinion in Terry v. Ohio, ante, p. 34. While patting down Peters’ clothing the officer “discovered an object in his pocket which might have been used as a weapon.” Ante, at 67. That object turned out to be a package of burglar’s tools. In my view those tools were properly admitted into evidence.