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Reasonable suspicion

Reasonable suspicion logo #21000 Reasonable suspicion is a legal standard of proof in United States law that is less than probable cause, the legal standard for arrests and warrants, but more than an `inchoate and unparticularized suspicion or `hunch` `; it must be based on `specific and articulable facts`, `taken together with rational inferences from those facts`...
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Reasonable Suspicion

Reasonable Suspicion logo #22319Level of suspicion required to justify law enforcement investigation, but not arrest or search. A lower level of suspicion or evidence than probable cause. An officer has reasonable suspicion when the officer is aware of specific, articulable facts, together with rational inferences from those facts, which, when judged objectively, would lead a rea...
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