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· 3/1/1993

United States v. Patrick Coggins

Citations

  • 986 F.2d 651
  • 28 V.I. 241
  • 1993 U.S. App. LEXIS 3313
  • 1993 WL 49930

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that defendant submitted to a show of authority where he obeyed agent’s command to “sit down,” even though defendant subsequently fled
  • holding suspect had been seized after officers ordered him to remain, and he sat in a stairwell before fleeing \soon after\
  • finding that a seizure occurred when defendant submitted to officer’s request to “sit down and wait”
  • where the defendant asked to leave but was ordered to remain and then sat back down, he was seized even though he fled soon thereafter
  • where the defendant asked to leave but was ordered to remain and then sat back down, he was seized even though he fled soon thereafter
  • \Mere _______ association with a known criminal cannot on its own be a basis for a 'reasonable suspicion.'\ (citing Ybarra v. Illinois, 444 U.S. 85, 91 (1979))

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Judges: Becker, Cowen, Roth

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