City of Grand Forks v. Zejdlik

How courts have described this case

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

• holding an officer was acting as a community caretaker when he initially approached an individual slumped over the steering wheel of an idling vehicle
• officer’s approach of parked vehicle and repeated knocking on window to get driver’s attention was permissible caretaker encounter and not a Fourth Amendment stop
• “[A] policeman’s approach to a parked vehicle is not a seizure if the officer inquires of the occupant in a conversational manner, does not order the person to do something, and does not demand a response.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).