United States v. Kevin Edwards

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• federal agents walked with defendant in the concourse of an Amtrak station and asked defendant questions which he voluntarily answered; no seizure
• \Our inquiry ... requires that we give particular deference to the district court that had the opportunity to hear the testimony and observe the demeanor of witnesses.\
• in consensual encounter, \the degree of suspicion that is required is zero\
• Contact between officers and defendant consensual where defendant was stopped in the open public area of the train depot, asked general questions which were neither intense nor repetitive and where defendant was told that he was not under arrest and free to leave at any time

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).