Title
California v. Hodari D.: The Demise of the Reasonable Person Test in Fourth Amendment Analysis
Document Type
Article
Media Type
Text
Abstract
This note examines the United Supreme Court decision which reexamined the point at which a police-citizen encounter becomes a seizure under the Fourth Amendment. The Court concluded that a police-citizen encounter becomes a seizure only when the citizen yields to the show of police authority. The author contends that the Court's definition of a seizure alters, if not disposes of, the former definition, which defined seizure as the point at which a reasonable person, faced with a show of authority, no longer feels free to leave.
First Page
463
Last Page
496
Publication Date
5-1-1992
Department
College of Law
ISSN
0734-1490
Language
eng
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Law Review
Recommended Citation
Costello, Patrick T.
(1992)
"California v. Hodari D.: The Demise of the Reasonable Person Test in Fourth Amendment Analysis,"
Northern Illinois University Law Review: Vol. 12:
Iss.
2, Article 1.
Suggested Citation
Patrick T. Costello, Note, California v. Hodari D.: The Demise of the Reasonable Person Test in Fourth Amendment Analysis, 12 N. Ill. U. L. Rev. 463 (1992).