177 Ohio App. 3d 670 - State v. Cosby’s Empirical Analysis

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48 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “Factors that might indicate a seizure include the threatening presence of several police officers, the display of a weapon, some physical touching of the person, the use of language or tone of voice indicating that compliance with the officer's request might be required, approaching the person in a nonpublic place, and blocking the citizen's path.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Shern

2. “[w]hen a person disposes of or abandons property in response to illegal police conduct, such as an illegal seizure or search, that person is not precluded from challenging the admissibility of the evidence because his act of abandonment is not voluntary and is a product or fruit of that illegal police conduct.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Ward

3. “The test for voluntary abandonment involves a determination of whether the abandonment was a product of the illegal stop and seizure of defendant.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Ward