People v. Fines

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• a reasonable person would not feel free to terminate an encounter where officers separated her from her vehicle and remained in control of her purse
• consent was invalid where the defendant was seized by police who remained in control of her purse, without offer of return
• “[A] passenger is not seized . . . merely because the vehicle in which she is riding is subjected to a traffic stop, nor does her removal from the car for safety reasons, without particularized suspicion, amount to an illegal seizure of her person.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).