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· 10/29/2009

Coghill v. United States

Citations

  • 982 A.2d 802
  • 2009 D.C. App. LEXIS 544
  • 2009 WL 3459874

How courts have described this case

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

  • considering the fact that an officer was alone with the suspect in finding handcuffing the suspect reasonable as part of an investigatory stop
  • upholding conviction for defendant who forcibly resisted officers as they handcuffed him but reversing conviction for defendant who fled from officers
  • the defendant fled a traffic stop, abandoning his companions and their vehicle, after the police had cuffed the driver, who himself had tried to escape by driving the car away from the stop
  • the defendant fled a traffic stop, abandoning his companions and their vehicle, after the police had cuffed the driver, who himself had tried to escape by driving the car away from the stop
  • the defendant fled a traffic stop, abandoning his companions and their vehicle, after the police had cuffed the driver, who himself had tried to escape by driving the car away from the stop

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Judges: Washington, Glickman, Ferren

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