Kaitlin Barnett v. Arkansas Department of Human Services and Minor Child

How courts have described this case

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• holding that officers may not detain an individual any longer than necessary to protect safety and secure premises
• holding that protective sweep of entire apartment during search incident to arrest was lawful
• explaining that standard employed in probable-cause determinations is one that is “short of absolute certainty” and, accordingly, will sometimes result in issuance of warrants to search innocent citizens
• recognizing “excessive force or restraints,” “prolonged detention,” or other “special circumstances” may render a search or seizure unreasonable
• describing that officers’ reasonable efforts to protect themselves from harm do not violate the Fourth Amendment
• holding a search reasonable where police ordered naked couple out of bed at gunpoint and they remained naked for two or three minutes

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).