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· 3/9/2007

United States v. James Charles Edward Shoals, IV

Citations

  • 478 F.3d 850
  • 2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 5527
  • 2007 WL 702809

How courts have described this case

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

  • concluding that citizen not seized until he acquiesced to officers’ command that he exit house
  • observing that police do not convert a Terry stop into a full custodial arrest simply by drawing weapons or handcuffing suspect
  • collecting cases establishing that an Nos. 21-1576, 21-1577 & 21-1971 13 officer’s decision to draw a weapon or handcuff the subject, standing alone, does not necessarily lead to the conclusion that the suspect was arrested
  • “The cases are clear … that police officers do not convert a Terry stop into a full custodial arrest just by drawing their weapons or handcuffing the subject.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Bauer, Evans, Per Curiam, Sykes

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