What is articulable cause?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Brown, 2001 CanLII 28337 (ON SC):
In elaborating upon the meaning of articulable cause, Doherty J.A., writing for the court, quoted an excerpt from the case of United States v. Cortez, 449 U.S. 411, 101 S.Ct. 690 (1981). Included in that excerpt is the following sentence: Based upon that whole picture the detaining officers must have a particularized and objective basis for suspecting the particular person stopped of criminal activity.
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