United States v. Rogest Packer

How courts have described this case

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• noting that under circumstances where the officers’ vehicles were parked both in front and behind the defendant’s car with the “take down” lights shining, a reasonable person would not feel free to leave
• officers effected seizure when they parked in front of and behind suspect's car and shined “takedown” light [spotlight] through defendant’s windows
• same where police cars stopped in front of and behind defendant’s car, and officer shone light through windows and instructed defendant to put hands in air
• “[I]t . . . seems unlikely that a reasonable person placed in a spotlight and knowing that he was the focus of police attention would believe that he was free to maneuver his car out of the parking space.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).