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Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 4/3/1998

Lawson v. State

Citations

  • 707 A.2d 947
  • 120 Md. App. 610
  • 1998 Md. App. LEXIS 79

How courts have described this case

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  • “Few, if any, reasonable citizens, while parked, would simply drive away and assume that the police, in turning on the emergency flashers, would be communicating something other than for them to remain.”
  • the activation of the emergency lights was a show of authority that constituted a seizure because it communicated to a reasonable person in the parked car that there was an intent to intrude upon the defendant’s freedom to move away
  • the activation of the emergency lights was a show of authority that constituted a seizure because it communicated to a reasonable person in the parked car that there was an intent to intrude upon the defendant’s freedom to move away
  • defendant in parked car was [J-112-2016] - 20 seized when police activated emergency lights because activation of the emergency lights was a show of authority that would communicate to a reasonable person that he was not free to move away
  • the activation of the emergency lights was a show of authority that constituted a seizure because it communicated to a reasonable person in the parked car that there was an intent to intrude upon the defendant’s freedom to move away
  • the activation of emergency lights was held to effect a seizure because it communicated to a reasonable person in the parked car the officer’s intent to curtail the defendant’s freedom to leave or avoid the encounter; the defendant complied with show of authority and remained stopped

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Judges: Davis, Sonner, Getty

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