United States v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis

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4 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions

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1. “[OJnce approached by the officers, there was no place for the defendant to go but to remain on the bus. The circumstances are much different from the ‘encounter’ which takes place within a bus station, see United States v. Winston, 892 F.2d 112 (D.C.Cir.1989) ... where the citizen can walk away. The defendant here had no place to go except to step off the bus, assuming he felt free to do so, thereby running the risk that the bus might leave without him. Moreover the situation is different than an ‘encounter’ on a train where a citizen has the option of walking into another car without actually leaving the train. See United States v. Savage, 889 F.2d 1113 (D.C.Cir.1989); United States v. Baskin, 886 F.2d 383 (D.C.Cir. 1989); United States v. Brady, 842 F.2d 1313 (D.C.Cir.1988).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Grant