POLICE-CITIZEN ENCOUNTERS
PROCEDURAL LAW FACTS

Weapons
100

Questioning without any restraint of the persons liberty

What is Mere Conversation

100

Defines how law enforcement can treat suspects

What is procedural law

100

readily available and capable of serious physical injury or death

what is dangerous weapon

200

Taking a person into custody for purposes of charging with an offense

What is Arrest?

200

A crime has Occurred, is occurring, or about to occur

What are reasonable suspicion factors

200

presently capable of serious physical injury or death

what is a deadly weapon
300

Temporary lawful restraint of a person's liberties

What is a stop?

300

What case law defined factors for detaining (1968)

What is Terry V. Ohio

300

a loaded firearm in the hands of a suspect

what is a deadly weapon 

400

reasonably suspects that a person has committed or is about to commit a crime (reasonable suspicion)

what is a basis for a stop

400

the time necessary for an officer to investigate a violation and write the citation without delay

what is the unavoidable lull

400

deadly and dangerous weapons have this in common

what is both capable of causing death or serious physical injury