Parker v. Commonwealth

I

The primary issues in this appeal are whether an encounter between a police officer and a pedestrian constituted a seizure within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States and, if so, whether the seizure was constitutionally permissible.

II

Leon Darnell Parker was indicted in the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond for possession of cocaine with intent to distribute in violation of Code § 18.2-248. The defendant filed a pretrial motion to suppress evidence of crack cocaine that had been seized from his person on the basis that this evidence was obtained in…