| Court: | US Supreme Court |
| Facts: | Sokolow fit a drig courier profile. There were a lot of facts (like whose name his home phone was registered in) that didn't add up to anything, but taken all together they made enforcement agents suspicious. And sure enough, he had drugs galore. |
| Posture: | Conditional plea of guilty, with an objection about the drug evidence. The 9th Circuit court of appeals thought the stop was impermissible for lack of reasonable suspicion. Appeal. |
| Issue: | Did the agents have reasonable suspicion that Sokolow was involved in wrongdoing when they stopped him? |
| Holding: | Yes. |
| Rule: | Reasonable suspicion is based on specific articulable facts that give rise to the inference. |
| Reasoning: | The fact that a bunch of these factors might be written down in a profile doesn't make them any less suspicious. |
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