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· 8/10/1988

United States v. William W. Boden

Citations

  • 854 F.2d 983
  • 1988 U.S. App. LEXIS 11532
  • 1988 WL 86529

How courts have described this case

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

  • explaining that “[a] Terry in- vestigative stop is a brief detention which gives officers a chance to verify (or dispel) well-founded suspicions that a person has been, is, or is about to be engaged in criminal ac- tivity”
  • common area of a gated storage facility surrounded by barbed wire fence, with key card access
  • common area of a gated storage facility surrounded by barbed wire fence, with key card access
  • law enforcement agents’ initial warrantless entry into the commercial storage facility did not implicate the Fourth Amendment rights of the defendant, who had rented a unit in the facility
  • \There is no 'seizure' subject to the Fourth Amendment unless a reasonable person in Boden's position would have believed that he was not free to ignore Agent Oitker (and the other agents) and continue on his way; the test is objective.\

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Judges: Cudahy, Ripple, Manion

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