Search & Seizure – Consensual Encounter – Outstanding Warrant

By Deborah Elkins
Published: February 2, 2009

Police did not need a particularized suspicion to approach a vehicle in a restaurant parking lot and question defendant about his identity, and he was not seized until police determined there was an outstanding warrant for him, the Court of Appeals says in upholding defendant’s conviction of cocaine possession with intent to distribute. Defendant’s encounter with ...

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