Linda Salmon v. Rita M Tafelski

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an officer did not “seize” the defendant by asking whether she had anything illegal in her purse and for consent to search it
• concluding that the officer’s question whether the defendant had anything illegal in her purse did not in itself cause her to be seized
• holding that citizen was engaged in “mere conversation” with police offi- cer once she “was free to leave” and when the atmosphere would not convey to a citizen “that she was not free to go”
• holding that a police-citizen encounter is a constitutionally significant seizure “(a) if a law enforcement officer intentionally and significantly restricts, interferes with, or otherwise deprives an individual of that individual’s liberty or freedom of movement; or (b
• holding that, “[although it is possible to restrict a person’s liberty and freedom of movement by purely verbal means,” the officer did not do so when he asked the defendant whether she had anything illegal in her purse and if he could search it
• explaining that, if the officers were to position themselves in a way that suggests that they have surrounded a defendant, that conduct could be a show of authority

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).