Commonwealth v. Douglass

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding that a three and one half hour detention, under the totality of the circumstances, was investigative rather than custodial
• explaining that the police may institute an encounter with a suspect and request information absent any level of suspicion, however, that encounter “carries no official duty to stop or respond”
• classifying a three hour detention as a reasonable investigative detention under the circumstances of that case
• classifying a three hour detention as a reasonable investigative detention under the circumstances of that case
• classifying a three hour detention as a reasonable investigative detention under the circumstances of that case
• discussing the factors to consider in determining if a detention is “too long in duration to be justified as an investigative stop”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).