Court Opinion

ID: 9709624
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 03:52:24.35273+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:22:49.117799
License: Public Domain

McDERMOTT, Justice,
concurring.
In Terry v. State of Ohio, 392 U.S. 1, 88 S.Ct. 1868, 20 L.Ed.2d 889 (1968), the United States Supreme Court drew a distinction between the probable cause necessary to effect an arrest, and the reasonable cause required to permit the stopping of an individual; and held that reasonable cause was sufficient to justify a “stop”. A similar distinction is appropriate in the present case.
I would hold that a pursuing officer need only have reasonable cause to pursue a suspect across the territorial *178limits of his primary jurisdiction. I join, however, in the opinion of the majority, since the “pursuit” in question was justified even under the more stringent standard of probable cause.