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· 4/13/1995

United States v. Coye Denise Green

Citations

  • 52 F.3d 194
  • 1995 U.S. App. LEXIS 8127
  • 1995 WL 215845

How courts have described this case

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  • determining that lack of identification does not automatically create reasonable suspicion of criminal activity, but that it can contribute
  • concluding that a consensual encounter became a seizure when, despite the suspect's refusal to consent -3- to a bag search, the police informed the suspect that his bag would be detained until a police dog arrived
  • rejecting travelling alone, carrying a small bag, wearing new and baggy clothes, and failing to make eye contact with officer as indicative of criminal activity
  • finding on similar facts -4- that \[a] request for information does not turn consensual questioning into an investigatory stop\
  • relying on Weaver: “Weaver’s initial consent and the manner in which he withdrew his consent contributed to the officer’s reasonable articulable suspicion.”
  • woman, traveling alone and wearing baggy clothing and sunglasses, deplaned from a drug source city, walked hurriedly and purposefully, and looked behind her

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Judges: Arnold, Gibson, Melloy

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