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· 3/12/2024

Commonwealth v. Bates, D.

How courts have described this case

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

  • “A suspect is ‘free to leave’ a nonseizure interview, but when he does so by abruptly bolting after having consented to talk, the officers are free to draw the natural conclusions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Per Curiam

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