Richmond v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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• holding that consensual encounter between police officer and defendant, who was lawfully parked in a parking lot, became a seizure when officer retained defendant's driver's license after running a check
• holding “that what began as a consensual encounter quickly became an investigative detention once the [officer] received [appellant’s] driver’s license and did not return it to him”
• holding \that what began as a consensual encounter quickly became an investigative detention once the [officer] received [appellant's] driver's license and did not return it to him\
• police officer’s retention of defendant's driver’s license constituted unlawful seizure of defendant’s person, because officer lacked reasonable suspicion to detain defendant
• \A reasonable person in appellant's cireumstances would not believe that he could terminate the encounter onee the officer retained the driver's license and returned to his police vehicle to run a record check.\
• seizure occurred because a reasonable person \would not have believed that he could terminate the encounter once the officer retained the driver's license and returned to his police vehicle to run a record check\

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