145 Md. App. 360 - Green v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
May 2010
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Wong Sun v. United States · Florida v. Royer · Ornelas v. United States · United States v. Mendenhall
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“We emphasize that, although, standing alone, no single circumstance would have transformed the encounter into a Fourth Amendment seizure, the collective coerciveness of the totality of those circumstances rose to the level of a show of authority such that a reasonable person in Ferris’s position would not have felt free to terminate the encounter with Trooper Smith at the moment the trooper asked him “if he would mind stepping to the back of his vehicle.” Accordingly, we hold that Trooper Smith seized him within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment when he asked Ferris to get out of his car and began to question him about possible criminal activity ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Although we accept the circuit court’s first level finding that the appellant “consented” to the search, we must independently determine the voluntariness of that consent, in light of the character of the encounter that culminated in that consent. The threshold question is whether the continued encounter after the completion of the traffic stop constituted a suspicionless seizure under Fourth Amendment law or, instead, a consensual encounter. A consent to search procured during an illegal detention is invalid as the product of the illegal seizure — the so called fruit of the poisonous tree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The trial court considered it significant that Green asked Meil whether the deputy wanted to look in the trunk. ... Green’s inquiry was consistent with the cooperative conduct that he displayed, but does not signify that he believed he was free to terminate the encounter. Indeed, appellant’s inquiry, a sign of his cooperation, may even have been a product of the coercive circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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