08/30/93 State Tennessee V. Terry Pulley

We granted review of this case in order to determine whether a police officer, investigating two urgent, anonymous reports of a man threatening people with a shotgun, acted reasonably under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article 1, Section 7, of the Tennessee Constitution by briefly stopping the defendant to investigate the reports. Because we believe that the officer acted reasonably under the circumstances, we find that the evidence seized during the stop was improperly excluded. The decision of the Court of Criminal Appeals upholding the trial court's suppression order is, therefore, reversed, and the case is remanded to the trial court.