Elgin Haynie v. County of Los Angeles Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca David Mertens Jensen, Deputies, in Their Personal and Official Capacities

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• holding that detention did not become an arrest where plaintiff was handcuffed for sixteen to twenty minutes and placed in patrol car after “continued yelling” and refusal to obey officer’s orders, which disrupted officer’s investigation
• concluding that the handcuffing of the defendant for 16 to 20 minutes did not amount to a de facto arrest because the officer “appropriately restrained [the defendant] only to the extent necessary to complete his investigation into [a] report about men with guns”
• noting that a Terry stop does not have rigid time constraints so long as the officer conducts the investigation in a diligent and reasonable fashion
• concluding that the handcuffing of the defendant for 16 to 20 minutes did not amount to a de facto arrest because the officer “appropriately restrained [the defendant] only to the extent necessary to complete his investigation into [a] report about men with guns”
• discussing how a 25- to 35-minute 9 traffic stop prompted by a citizen’s report was reasonable to perform pat down search, to 10 search vehicle, and to interview driver
• finding no arrest where the suspect initially refused to pull over, made furtive movements with his hands inside his car, refused to submit to a frisk, and continued yelling at the officers after.being handcuffed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).