Lopez-Vazquez v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• acknowledging that “taint may be purged” from evidence pursuant to the independent source doctrine
• noting that determining the existence of “reasonable suspicion” is “somewhat abstract” and indicating that there is no rigid number of events to be considered as part of the totality of the circumstances
• discussing the standard for evaluating the seizure of a motor vehicle under the Terry framework
• declining to find reasonable articulable suspicion where defendant interacted with drug suspect while area under active surveillance for drug activity
• applying the inevitable discovery doctrine to evidence discovered independently from unconstitutional out-of-state tracking
• “Under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, a seizure requires either physical force or submission to assertion of authority.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).