City of Topeka v. Grabauskas

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a reasonable person would not feel free to leave when an officer grabbed her and attempted to place her in handcuffs
• holding that a reasonable person would not feel free to leave when an officer grabbed her and attempted to place her in handcuffs
• concluding that police officers properly stopped defendant for public safety function but did not have reasonable suspicion to support handcuffing defendant and throwing her to the ground causing defendant’s broken arm
• hallmark of Fourth Amendment voluntary encounter is right of citizen to refuse to answer questions and to leave
• Fourth Amendment voluntary encounter preserves right of citizen to refuse to answer questions and to leave
• officers initiated contact with the defendant because they wanted to determine if she was a reported runaway

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).