Reuben ‘Bear’ Payne worked as a Cuyahoga County prosecutor from 1953-1959 and 1961-1969 and is best known for serving as lead prosecutor in the 1968 U.S. Supreme Court case Terry v. Ohio, the landmark Fourth Amendment case that established the “stop and frisk” doctrine. Opposing Payne was defense attorney and future Congressman Louis Stokes (1953). With Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall on the bench, it was the first time in U.S. history African-Americans both argued and heard a case at the Supreme Court before the Court’s first African-American justice. After leaving the Prosecutor’s Office, Payne was a defense attorney in Cleveland until he moved to Arizona where he retired from the Arizona Corporation Commission in 1987.