Step 1 Answer the review questions.

This is an assignment you will want to keep in your personal files as well as submitting to your instructor. Answer the following question:

1. Why is it important to view a stop and a frisk as two separate acts?
2. Assuming an officer has reasonable suspicion to stop a person, what must the officer do before stopping him or her?
3. Define astop.
4. Why is the duration of a stop important?
5. Summarize the permissible grounds for a frisk.
6. Summarize the Supreme Court's view on the proper scope of a frisk.
7. In what ways has stop-and-frisk law been expanded? Summarize pertinent cases.

Step 2 Provide examples.

Provide one example that illustrates the concept presented for each review question in the same document you created in Step 1.