John Tebbens v. Dennis Mushol

How courts have described this case

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• subjective intent of officer and suspect are irrelevant to inquiry into the nature of the detention
• “The qualified immunity defense provides ample protection to all but the plainly incompetent or those who knowingly violate the law.”
• subjective intent of officers is irrelevant to inquiry into the nature of detention

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).