What is the difference between a police arrest and a consensual encounter?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Profit, 183 Cal.App.3d 849, 229 Cal.Rptr. 148 (Cal. App. 1986):
[183 Cal.App.3d 876] While the opinion of Florida v. Royer, supra, 460 U.S. 491, 103 S.Ct. 1319, 11 turned on the distinction between a "detention" and an "arrest," it discusses some typical police actions that fall into the "consensual encounter" category.
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