Harper v. Sheriff of Cook County

How courts have described this case

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• finding that holding a detainee after he has posted bond may rise to a constitutional violation if the delay is unreasonable
• finding that holding a detainee after he has posted bond may rise to a constitutional violation if the delay is unreasonable
• holding that the constitutionality of detaining arrestees who had already posted bond “depends on whether the length of the delay between the time the Sheriff was notified that bond had been posted and the time that the detainee was released was reasonable”
• observing that a policy of “assign[ing] a jail identification number to a detainee before allowing him to be released on bond” may be unconstitutional if the procedure “takes an unreasonable amount of time”
• reversing grant of class certification; constitutionality of prolonged detention af- ter bond posted would depend on individual circumstances not suitable for class
• reversing grant of class certification; constitutionality of prolonged detention af- ter bond posted would depend on individual circumstances not suitable for class

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).