United States v. Lyndom Burl Baker

How courts have described this case

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• holding no seizure where officer approached already stopped vehicle, asked occupants to roll down window, and questioned occupants
• finding no seizure in part because driver allowed officer to speak to other persons in the vehicle
• finding no seizure in part because officer did not display a weapon or use any coercive language or tone when speaking to vehicle's occupants
• encounter where an officer approached a vehicle that was stopped in traffic and displayed his badge was not a seizure
• “The societal pressure to stop and speak with law enforcement is not a sufficient restraint of liberty to raise the interaction to a level that requires constitutional protection.”
• “In order for there to be a sufficient restraint on liberty to elevate an interaction between law enforcement and an individual to constitutional dimensions that trigger Fourth Amendment protection, the police must exert a show of authority....”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).