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· 1/15/1999

United States v. Mark E. Tuley

Citations

  • 161 F.3d 513
  • 1998 WL 784047

How courts have described this case

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

  • concluding that twenty-minute detention to investigate officer’s suspicion, which included time spent checking the defendant’s criminal history and verifying an outstanding warrant, was reasonable
  • holding that “blocking” a person’s “truck with the squad car resulted in a Fourth Amendment seizure”
  • “[blocking a vehicle so its occupant is unable to leave during the course of an investigatory stop is reasonable to maintain the status quo while completing the purpose of the stop”
  • seizure occurred where officer parked squad car behind an individual’s truck that was blocked in the front by an awning
  • officer blocked truck in -9- which defendant was sitting

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: McMillian, Gibson, Hansen

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