Pierce v. Georger

How courts have described this case

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

• determining that defendant not in custody for purposes of Miranda when officers questioned defendant during motor vehicle stop about whether he had been smoking marijuana
• determining that defendant not in custody for purposes of Miranda where only two officers spoke to him and were in his immediate vicinity
• explaining that scope of an investigatory stop “must be carefully tailored to its underlying justification — to confirm or to dispel the officer’s particular suspicion”
• holding a cigar between thumb and index finger and cupping it inside the hand contributes to reasonable suspicion
• finding no custody where, despite the presence of three police cruisers and an unmarked police truck, only two officers interviewed the defendant
• finding no custody where, despite the presence of three police cruisers and an unmarked police truck, only two officers interviewed the defendant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).