State v. Martin

CLARK, Justice.

hWe granted a writ to consider whether the defendant was seized when a police officer asked for his identification in order to check for outstanding warrants, and then asked the defendant if he had anything illegal on his person while retaining the defendant’s identification. Under the scant facts presented here, we find there was nothing in the conduct of the officer which decisively changed the consensual nature of the officer’s brief encounter with the defendant such that Fourth Amendment protections were implicated. Thus, we find the district court did not abuse its…