Com. v. Biggs

How courts have described this case

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• holding that encounter was consensual where officers approached the defendant and, after asking for his airline ticket and driver’s license, asked him if he was carrying any narcotics or large sums of money
• holding that encounter lasting for a few minutes in which officers ap proached defendant at airport and asked to examine defendant’s ticket and identification was a consensual interview
• indicating that police approached defendant after watching him sprint through airport with a pillow case stuffed with clothes and a brown tweed bag
• indicating that police approached defendant after watching him sprint through airport with a pillow case stuffed with clothes and a brown tweed bag
• using the defendant’s actions as 10 evidence of voluntary consent when no officers instructed him to act in the manner that he did
• consent voluntary because police officers did not act threateningly or intrusively, and made no promises or threats when requesting consent to search

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).