State v. Halfmann

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that no seizure occurred where motorist pulled over to the side of a highway of her own volition and officer’s use of emergency lights were “a procedural precaution . . . to maintain traffic flow, and was not meant to inhibit Halfmann’s liberty[]”
• holding an officer acted in a caretaking capacity when he approached a driver after she drove to the shoulder of a gravel road and stopped her vehicle
• “Halfmann argues a Fourth Amendment ‘stop’ occurred when Officer King pulled up behind her car, activated his amber lights, and approached her car by foot. Under these circumstances, we disagree.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).