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· 8/28/1989

United States v. Arthur Gray

Citations

  • 883 F.2d 320
  • 1989 U.S. App. LEXIS 12930
  • 1989 WL 98753

How courts have described this case

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  • noting variety of factors courts consider to determine whether a police-citizen encounter constitutes a seizure
  • A seizure occurs when the officer uses physical force to restrain the liberty of a person
  • federal agents walked with defendant in the stream of pedestrian traffic inside an airport and, without verbal or physical abuse or intimidation, asked for defendant’s identification, which defendant delivered to the officers; no seizure
  • discussing factors courts consider in determining whether seizure occurred
  • asked “whether he was carrying drugs”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Ervin, Widener, Michael, Western, Virginia

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