The People of the State of New York v. Miguel Rivera

Summary

The Court reversed the lower court's suppression order, holding that the police may stop a person in a public place for questioning based on reasonable suspicion and may frisk the individual as a safety precaution, even absent probable cause. The decision affirms the constitutionality of such stops and frisks under the Fourth Amendment, while a dissent warned that the ruling undermines the exclusionary rule.