Kelby R. Gordon v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that suspect was unlawfully “seized” when police officers, without reasonable articulable suspicion, repeatedly questioned him about his identity for about ten minutes
• noting that ―the accosting officers [in Wardlow] observed more than flight; they saw the 13 See also Kraft v. Kraft, 155 A.2d 910, 913 (D.C. 1959
• noting that ―the accosting officers [in Wardlow] observed more than flight; they saw the 13 See also Kraft v. Kraft, 155 A.2d 910, 913 (D.C. 1959
• differentiating Brown on grounds that the repetitive questioning in Brown was simply to seek clarification to a non- responsive initial answer
• “[T]he officer seized Gordon by repeatedly questioning him before the police learned of his outstanding warrant.”
• “We observe that virtually no time passed between the illegal seizure and the discovery of the warrant . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).