Adams v. Parker

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that officers’ encounter with the defendant was a second-tier detention because the officers blocked defendant’s exit and officer testified that appellant was not free to leave
• stating that “it is hardly naïve (or unreasonable) to think that” children/teenagers who are on break from school would play in vacant lots, “even in areas known for drug or gang-related activity”
• defendant’s encounter with police officer escalated into a second-tier encounter when defendant’s attempt 6 to leave the encounter was prevented by officers blocking his exit down the path
• mere presence in area known to the police for criminal activity, without more, is insufficient to support a reasonable suspicion that one is engaged in or about to engage in criminal activity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).