United States v. Otis Lee Weaver, Jr.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the defendant was free to request his license be returned to him so that he could end the encounter
• concluding that a pedestrian approached by an officer in a public parking lot in broad daylight could have walked away from the encounter even though it may have created an awkward situation
• noting that \the retention of a person's identification is an important factor in determining whether a 'seizure' within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment occurred\ but declining to adopt a bright-line rule
• noting that the Supreme Court has recognized three distinct types of police-citizen interactions, namely, arrests, brief investigatory stops, and brief encounters, “which require no objective justification”
• noting that the Supreme Court has recognized three distinct types of police-citizen interactions, namely, arrests, brief investigatory stops, and brief encounters, “which require no objective justification.” (citations omitted)
• finding encounter occurring in “public parking lot in the middle of the day” was consensual

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).