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Indiana Court of Appeals· 2/29/2000

Overstreet v. State

Citations

  • 724 N.E.2d 661
  • 2000 Ind. App. LEXIS 210
  • 2000 WL 225933

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  • holding that an interaction between an officer and the defendant was a consensual encounter and thus the officer was not required to possess reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing to approach the defendant
  • holding that the Fourth Amendment was not implicated when the officer followed the defendant to a gas station, approached him, asked about his action, and asked for his identification
  • holding that an interaction between an officer and the defendant was a consensual encounter and thus the officer was not required to possess reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing to approach the defendant
  • holding that defendant was not stopped or seized where officer pulled his patrol car behind defendant’s car at fuel pump without activating his lights, approached him, asked for identification, and questioned him about suspicious activity
  • concluding that no stop or seizure occurred where officer stopped at a gas station without activating lights or siren, approached Overstreet while he was putting air in his tires, asked him for identification, and questioned him about what he had been doing
  • stating unlike typical sufficiency of the evidence case where only the evidence favorable to the judgment is considered, we must also consider the uncontested evidence favorable to the defendant

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Judges: Najam, Brook, Robb

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