United States v. Jessie Lee Waldon

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing a defendant’s giving of “evasive answers when asked what he was doing in the area” as a factor establishing reasonable suspicion
• stating that a seizure occurs if the officer engages in overbearing or coercive activity in making requests or conveys the message that compliance with requests is required
• discussing that arrests supported by probable cause, Terry stops supported by reasonable suspicion, and consensual encounters are the “three types of permissible encounters between the police and citizens”
• noting that the associated inquiry is an objective one
• affirming application of the enhancement when the defendant asked another person to report the car used in the commission of the crime as stolen after his arrest, but they did not do so
• “We know of no legal precedent suggesting a police officer can engage in a consensual encounter only with citizens whom he does not suspect of wrongdoing.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).