[DOWNLOAD] "People V. Souza" by California Supreme Court # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: People V. Souza
- Author : California Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 28, 1994
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 68 KB
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When a person takes "flight" at the sight of a police officer, may the officer temporarily detain the person for questioning? Because under the Fourth Amendment the lawfulness of a temporary detention depends not on any one circumstance viewed in isolation, but upon the totality of the circumstances known to the detaining officer, we decline to establish a "bright-line" rule that flight without more provides cause to detain. We recognize, however, that flight in response to the appearance of a uniformed officer or a marked patrol car ordinarily is behavior that police may legitimately regard as suspicious, and therefore also can be a key factor in establishing reasonable cause to detain in a particular case. Applying these Conclusions to the facts here, we uphold the temporary detention at issue as lawful, and we reverse the Court of Appeal.