Supreme Court· 6/30/1980

United States v. Mendenhall

Citations

446 U.S. 544
100 S. Ct. 1870
64 L. Ed. 2d 497
1980 U.S. LEXIS 102

How courts have described this case

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holding that an individual is seized when, by a show of authority, an officer restrains their liberty
holding that seizure occurs when a reasonable person under the circumstances would not feel free to leave
holding that Fourth Amendment rights are not implicated by consensual encounters between citizens and the police
noting that the race, gender, age, and education of a young Black woman who “may have felt unusually threatened by the officers, who were white males” were all relevant factors in determining whether the woman voluntarily consented to a seizure
noting that no justification is required for voluntary police-citizen encounters
noting DEA agent's subjective intent to detain defendant is irrelevant unless intent was conveyed

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Judges: Stewart, Court'S, Ii-B, Ii-C, Burger, Blackmun, Powell, Rehnquist, Ii-A, White, Brennan, Marshall, Stevens

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