{"id":23646,"date":"2016-09-09T16:39:28","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T21:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23646"},"modified":"2016-09-09T16:39:28","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T21:39:28","slug":"ct-two-police-cars-converging-on-def-and-telling-him-to-stop-was-a-seizure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23646","title":{"rendered":"CT: Two police cars converging on def and telling him to stop was a seizure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two police cars driving at defendant in a Subway parking lot from different directions and stopping him was a stop. And, he was ordered to stop by an officer. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jud.state.ct.us\/external\/supapp\/Cases\/AROcr\/CR323\/323CR85.pdf\">State v. Edmonds<\/a>, 2016 Conn. LEXIS 251 (Sept. 13, 2015) (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jud.state.ct.us\/external\/supapp\/Cases\/AROcr\/CR323\/323CR85A.pdf\">concur<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jud.state.ct.us\/external\/supapp\/Cases\/AROcr\/CR323\/323CR85B.pdf\">concur<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jud.state.ct.us\/external\/supapp\/Cases\/AROcr\/CR323\/323CR85E.pdf\">dissent<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Court finds that a reasonable person would have felt free to decline Detective Garcia&#8217;s requests and terminate the encounter. Under Robinson, the facts of this case warrant a conclusion that the questioning of defendant and the search of his backpack constitute a consensual encounter that did not constitute a Terry stop. Prior to discovering the pills in defendant Penton&#8217;s backpack, Detective Garcia neither detained nor interrogated Penton.\u201d United States v. Penton, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 115703 (W.D.Mo. July 26, 2016),* adopted, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 115194 (W.D. Mo. Aug. 29, 2016).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two police cars driving at defendant in a Subway parking lot from different directions and stopping him was a stop. And, he was ordered to stop by an officer. State v. Edmonds, 2016 Conn. LEXIS 251 (Sept. 13, 2015) (concur; &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23646\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,69,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consent","category-seizure","category-stop-and-frisk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23647,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23646\/revisions\/23647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}