California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Guidi v. Superior Court, 10 Cal.3d 1, 109 Cal.Rptr. 684, 513 P.2d 908 (Cal. 1973):
16 As was said by Chief Justice Warren, speaking for the court in Terry v. Ohio, supra, 392 U.S. 1, 19--20, 88 S.Ct. 1868, 1879, 20 L.Ed.2d 889: '(T)he central inquiry under the Fourth Amendment (is) the reasonableness in all the circumstances of the particular governmental invasion of a citizen's personal security. 'Search' and 'seizure' are not talismans. . . . ( ) . . . (When) we deal . . . with an entire rubric of police conduct--necessarily swift action predicated upon the on-the-spot observations of the officer on the best--which historically has not been, and as a practical matter could not be, subjected to the warrant procedure . . . the conduct involved . . . must be tested by the Fourth Amendment's general proscription against unreasonable searches and seizures.'
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