United States v. Mehdi Tehrani, Amir Alaei

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that a police encounter remains consensual “so long as the police do not convey a message that compliance with their requests is required” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• recognizing that a police encounter remains 16 consensual “so long as the police do not convey a message that 17 compliance with their requests is required” (internal quotation 18 marks omitted)
• holding that defendant’s detention in a private airport office for more than 30 minutes after being told that he would miss his flight did not convert the permissible investigatory detention into a de facto arrest requiring probable cause
• explaining that a longer Terry stop may be permissible where officers are “diligently” pursuing their investigation (citation omitted)
• explaining that an encounter is consensual so “long as the police do not convey a message that compliance with their requests is required” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• declining to hold that a thirty-minute detention based on reasonable suspicion is per se too long

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).