United States v. Clements

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• explaining that the defendant had pulled his car to the side of the road voluntarily and holding that the officers pulling up behind an already-stopped car and flashing their lights and approaching the car did not constitute a seizure
• finding no seizure where officers activated red and blue lights before approaching parked vehicle at night
• “Forfeiture occurs when a defendant negligently fails to assert a right in a timely fashion.”
• “Forfeiture occurs when a defendant negligently fails to assert a right in a timely fashion.”
• defendant was not seized when an officer “pulled his vehicle behind their parked car and activated his amber warning lights”
• \Clements's behavior at trial does not suggest incompetence; it was merely Clements's attempts to interject his own view of the issues and generally frustrate the progress of the trial.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).