The following excerpt is from Raiser v. San Diego Cnty., Case No.: 19-cv-0751-GPC-KSC (S.D. Cal. 2019):
of all of the circumstances surrounding the incident, a reasonable person would have believed that he was not free to leave." U.S. v. Mendenhall, 446 U.S. 544, 553-54 (1980). A seizure requires, at a minimum, reasonable suspicion, United States v. Woods, 720 F.2d 1022, 1026 (9th Cir. 1983), which entails "a particularized and objective basis for suspecting the particular person stopped of criminal activity." United States v. Cortez, 449 U.S. 411, 417-18 (1981).
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