WOODSON v. COM.

Record No. 921171.

429 S.E.2d 27 (1993)

Jimmie Hugene WOODSON, Jr. v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

April 16, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John B. Mann, Richmond (Levit & Mann, on brief), for appellant.

Robert Q. Harris, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Mary Sue Terry, Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellee.

Present: CARRICO, C.J., COMPTON, STEPHENSON, WHITING, LACY and HASSELL, JJ., and COCHRAN, Retired Justice.


WHITING, Justice.

The primary issue in this Fourth Amendment case is whether inculpatory evidence was properly admitted. To decide this question, we must determine when the defendant was "seized" within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment.*

About 7:45 p.m. on November 24, 1988, Detective D.R. Carter was stationed at the front entrance of a house in the City of Richmond while other police officers were executing a search warrant...

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