The Yale Law Journal

Tina M. Thomas

Note

An Offense-Severity Model for Stop-and-Frisks

David Keenan & Tina M. Thomas

This Note joins a growing chorus of scholarship criticizing the lack of proportionality analysis in the Supreme Court’s Fourth Amendment jurisprudence. Rather than simply bemoan the current state of legal doctrine, we offer a practical test that state and federal courts could use t…