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103004P.pdf 08/15/2011 United States v. Traves Rush
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 10-3004
U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska - Lincoln
[PUBLISHED] [Riley, Author, with Gruender, Circuit Judge, and
Limbaugh, District Judge]
Criminal case - Criminal law. Under the facts presented, the officer's act
of questioning defendant was a consensual encounter; officer had a
reasonable suspicion that defendant and his companion had been involved
in a bank robbery, and he could detain defendant and place him in the back
of the police cruiser without violating defendant's Fourth Amendment
rights; evidentiary challenge rejected; evidence was sufficient to sustain
defendant's conviction for bank robbery.