Commonwealth v. McClease

How courts have described this case

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

• “Accordingly, though some federal precedents guide us in our decision here, they do not compel the result we reach”
• “Accordingly, though some federal precedents guide us in our decision here, they do not compel the result we reach”
• “[Notwithstanding the absence of evidence to establish a person’s intent to leave the scene, a seizure occurs when, under all the surrounding circumstances, a reasonable person would not feel free to leave”
• stop illegal where police lacked reasonable suspicion that defendant “was currently engaged in criminal activity”
• “In determining whether a ‘mere encounter’ has risen to the level of an ‘investigative detention,’ the focus of our inquiry is on whether a ‘seizure’ of the person has occurred.”
• “An illegal sentence must be vacated.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).