Court Opinion

ID: 9525902
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 03:09:14.340844+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:17:22.895687
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BENTON, Judge,
concurring.
I do not agree with the majority’s assertion that the initial encounter of the police officers and the operator of the vehicle was “consensual and implicated no Fourth Amendment interest.” When the three uniformed police officers approached the vehicle, inquired about the ownership of the vehicle, and asked for the vehicle’s registration, they seized Toliver and his passengers. See Code § 46.2-104; Brown v. Commonwealth, 17 Va.App. 694, 696-97, 440 S.E.2d 619, 620-21 (1994). I concur, however, in the remainder of the opinion and in the judgment reversing the conviction and dismissing the charge.