Maher v. Esselborn

How courts have described this case

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

• examining “what a reasonable man, innocent of any crime, would have thought had he been in the defendant’s position” in determining when arrest is effectuated
• “Even without a technical formal arrest, a suspect’s detention may in fact be the equivalent of an arrest, requiring probable cause”
• police transported suspect in a cruiser to scene of the crime for possible identification by eyewitnesses; upheld as investigative stop
• police transported suspect in a cruiser to scene of the crime for possible identification by eyewitnesses; upheld as investigative stop
• “The transportation did not unduly prolong the detention. Defendants] might, alternatively, have been momentarily detained where [they] had been stopped and the witnesses brought there . . . possibly even a more time-consuming process than that chosen”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).