United States v. Silas O. Thompkins

How courts have described this case

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• stating defendant not seized during an encounter at a bus stop, until chased and grabbed
• finding abandonment where defendant maintained that the bag was not his and told officers they could search it
• denying ownership of bag and telling officers to go ahead and search it constitutes abandonment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).