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· 11/2/2016

Jofran Sales, Inc. v. Watkins & Shepard Trucking, Inc.

Citations

  • 216 F. Supp. 3d 206
  • 2016 WL 6518431
  • 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 151955

How courts have described this case

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

  • finding when police officer asks individual whether he is carrying “anything on him that he shouldn’t have,” question converts field inquiry into detention
  • distinguishing Bostick where the officer's conduct and questions indicated that the defendant \was or might be involved in criminal conduct\ and was \not free to leave\
  • asking juvenile if there was \anything on him that he shouldn't have\ converted field inquiry into a Terry stop
  • finding no reasonable or articulable suspicion because police officer's \hunch to detain the travelers was based on a drug courier profile and not upon the specific overt conduct\ of the juvenile and his adult traveling companion
  • distinguishing Bostick where the officer’s conduct and questions indicated that the defendant “was or might be involved in criminal conduct” and was “not free to leave”

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Judges: Saylor

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