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· 7/25/1988

State v. Ellwood

Citations

  • 757 P.2d 547
  • 52 Wash. App. 70
  • 1988 Wash. App. LEXIS 340

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that the defendant was seized when told by officer to \`[w]ait right here'\
  • holding that \wait right here\ is a command constituting a seizure
  • seizure occurred when police told No. 70003-1-1/6 suspect to \ '[wjait right here' \
  • generally, “the approach of a uniformed officer carrying a gun is not in itself a sufficient show of force to instill in one the reasonable belief that he [or she] is being detained”
  • seizure occurred when detective told defendant to '\[w]ait right here\'
  • seizure occurs when police tell suspect, \`[w]ait right here'\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Grosse, Pekelis, Winsor

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