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DICKERSON v. COM.

Record No. 021968.

581 S.E.2d 195 (2003)

266 Va. 14

Vincent DICKERSON v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

June 6, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip G. Gardner (Gardner, Gardner, Barrow & Sharpe, on brief), Martinsville, for appellant.

Virginia B. Theisen, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Jerry W. Kilgore, Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellee.

Present: All the Justices.

OPINION BY Justice ELIZABETH B. LACY.

In this appeal we again consider whether, following the conclusion of a valid stop for a traffic violation, the continued encounter between a police officer and the driver of the vehicle was consensual or an illegal seizure in violation of the driver's Fourth Amendment rights.

On August 20, 1999, Pittsylvania Sheriff's Deputy B.K. Parker received a radio dispatch giving him the license plate number and description of a...

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