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free-to-leave test  

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  • The Fourth Amendment includes the right to be secure against unreasonable seizures of one's person. The free-to-leave test provides a standard for determining whether a seizure has occurred in a situation that does not involve actual physical restraint by police officers. [Source: Encyclopedia of the Fourth Amendment; Free-to-Leave Test]

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