582 So. 2d 596 - Fields v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “' "[i]t is well settled that not every encounter between police officers and citizens constitutes a seizure within the protection of the Fourteenth Amendment. United States v. Mendenhall , 446 U.S. 544 , 554 , 100 S.Ct. 1870 , [1877] 64 L.Ed.2d 497 (1980); Terry v. Ohio , 392 U.S. 1 , 19 , n. 16, 88 S.Ct. 1868 , 1879 , n. 16, 20 L.Ed.2d 889 (1968). 'There is nothing in the Constitution which prevents a policeman from addressing questions to anyone on the streets.' Terry , 392 U.S. at 34 , 88 S.Ct. at 1886 (Justice White, concurring). A stop 'of a restricted investigative scope conducted in a non-coercive manner . . . [does] not trigger Fourth Amendment protection at all.' United States v. Willis , 759 F.2d 1486 , 1495 (11th Cir.), cert. denied, 474 U.S. 849 , 106 S.Ct. 144 , 88 L.Ed.2d 119 (1985).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Williams v. State