Based solely on a radio-transmitted anonymous tip that four or five black males were trying to shoot a gun into a vacant lot, the police initially stopped and frisked respondent-appellant (J.R.) and his four cohorts, who were found standing alongside the vacant lot identified by the informant. Aside from the tip, the police had no indication that any of the young men was in possession of a gun. After the frisks failed to yield any weapons or contraband, the police detained...
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