State v. Maryland

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an officer has not seized a person under the Fourth Amendment if his questions are put in a conversational manner that is not overbearing or harassing in nature and does not make demands or issue orders
• holding “hunch” insufficient to rebut inference of discriminatory enforcement
• explaining application of the exclusionary rule to the fruits of an unlawful stop
• “[T]he questioning of [a] defendant as part of a field inquiry is not sustainable if the officers approached him and his companions solely because of their race and age.”
• “[T]he questioning of [a] defendant as part of a field inquiry is not sustainable if the officers approached him and his companions solely because of their race and age.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).