OPINION
COCHRAN, J., delivered the opinion of the Court in which MEYERS, PRICE, WOMACK, JOHNSON and HOLCOMB, JJ., joined.
In this case, we examine the distinction between a citizen-police "encounter" and a citizen-police "detention." A "detention" implicates the Fourth Amendment's search and seizure restrictions and requires articulable suspicion to support even a temporary seizure, while an "encounter" is not subject to any Fourth Amendment requirements...
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