State v. Williams

SHIRLEY S. ABRAHAMSON, CHIEF JUSTICE

¶ 36. (dissenting). I agree with the circuit court and the court of appeals in concluding that a reasonable *19motorist under the circumstances of the present case would not have felt free to refuse to answer the officer's questions and would not have felt free to get into his or her car and leave the scene.1 It makes no difference whether the seizure is conceived of as an unreasonable extension of the initial traffic stop, or alternatively, a second seizure beginning with the state trooper's line of questioning after issuing the warning citation.2

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