Adams v. Williams

Adams v. Williams
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 10, 1972 Decided June 12, 1972
Full case name	Frederick E. ADAMS, Warden, Petitioner, v. Robert WILLIAMS.
Docket no.	70-5015
Citations	407 U.S. 143 (more) 92 S.Ct. 1921, 32 L.Ed.2d 612
Argument	Oral argument
Case history
Prior	Certiorari denied from the Supreme Court of Connecticut. District Court denied federal habeas corpus. Second Circuit Court of Appeals reversed.
Holding
A tip from an informant who is known to an officer forms reasonable suspicion to frisk a suspect for weapons.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William O. Douglas · William J. Brennan Jr. Potter Stewart · Byron White Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun Lewis F. Powell Jr. · William Rehnquist
Case opinions
Majority	Rehnquist, joined by Stewart, White, Blackmun, Powell, Burger
Dissent	Marshall
Dissent	Brennan
Dissent	Douglas
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amends. IV

Adams v. United States, 407 U.S. 143 (1972), is a United States Supreme Court in which the Court held that tips from a known informant can create enough reasonable suspicion to justify a patdown under Terry v. Ohio.