United States v. Gerald Duane Kerr

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that, when an officer blocked a suspect’s driveway, the “suggestion that [the suspect] could have backed around the car or ignored [the officer] defies common sense”
• emphasizing that even for a Terry stop,\hunches alone will not withstand constitutional scrutiny\
• emphasizing that even for a Terry stop, \hunches alone will not withstand constitutional scrutiny\
• finding that when a uniformed officer approached a car after blocking the one-lane driveway as defendant was backing out, a seizure occurred, leaving defendant with “no reasonable alternative except an encounter with the police”
• “loading boxes into a vehicle on residential property at mid-afternoon, a time of day not raising an inference of criminal activity”
• finding the defendant seized when a deputy pulled into his one lane driveway and blocked defendant’s exit with his police vehicle because he had “no reasonable alternative except an encounter with the police”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).