United States v. James Robert Hernandez

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a man who reached into his pants to discard a gun while fleeing “never submitted to authority”
• holding that hesitation and eye contact, without more, did not constitute submission
• holding that hesitation and eye contact, without more, did not constitute submission
• noting that juries may put undue emphasis on particular testimony if provided with transcripts
• noting that a rule that treats a suspect’s momentary hesitation before flight as submission “would encourage suspects to flee after the slightest contact with an officer in order to discard evidence, and yet still maintain Fourth Amendment protections”
• inferring the “jury’s obvious intent to emphasize a specific portion of the transcript” after naming what part of the testimony it wanted excerpted

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).