Padilla v. Meese

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “[w]here an officer acts outside the scope of his statutory authority an arrest is not necessarily rendered unlawful” because it may be a lawful citizen’s arrest
• implying citizen's arrest even though citizen did not state that he wished to charge the perpetrator with the offense for which he was arrested
• implying citizen’s arrest even though citizen did not state that he wished to charge the perpetrator with the offense for which he was arrested
• citizen may make arrest for a misdemeanor committed in his presence and in doing so may delegate the act of taking the suspect into physical custody

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).