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A proper frisk under the stopandfrisk rules established by Terry v. Ohio:
 
  a. is limited to a patdown of the suspect's outer clothing unless something that could be a weapon is feltduring the pat-down.
 b. may not be conducted unless there is no doubt in the mind of the officer that the suspect has a weapon.
  c. may include a search of an area within 100 yards of the suspect if the pat-down results in the feeling of anobject which could be a weapon.
 d. may not even extend to a pat-down unless the officer has probable cause to believe the suspect has aweapon.

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According to the Supreme Court opinion in Terry v. Ohio involving the stop and frisk of a citizen on the street to investigate a robbery:
 
  a. a stop is conduct outside the purview of the Fourth Amendment because the action does not rise to thelevel of a seizure.
 b. whenever a police officer accosts an individual and restrains his freedom to walk away, he has seized thatperson.
 c. a stop is not a serious intrusion upon the sanctity of the person and may be taken lightly.
  d. the personal security and privacy of the individual always outweighs the government's interests in detectingcrime.



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Answer to Question 1

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