United States v. Steven Angelo Ward

How courts have described this case

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• stating that \whet encounter occurs in the public view is particularly significant\ to the question of whether a seizure occurred
• “[W]hen an alleged abandonment follows a Fourth Amendment violation, the issue is whether the abandonment of property was voluntary.”
• reasonable suspicion resulting from defendant’s untruthful answers proper only if questioning of defendant was voluntary, consensual encounter
• officers asking accusatory questions rather than general inquiries suggests that person is not free to leave
• stating that \in a public setting . . . the reasonable innocent person is less likely to feel singled out as the officers' specific target\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).