Potts v. City of Philadelphia

How courts have described this case

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

• “A .police officer, after all, is not obligated ‘to conduct a mini-trial’ before arresting a suspect.” (quoting Brodnicki v. City of Omaha, 75 F.3d 1261, 1264 (8th Cir. 1996))
• “Here, [Plaintiff] was detained for 30 hours, well short of three days. Thus, under Baker, plaintiff cannot establish a claim against [Defendants] for unlawful detention as a matter of law.”
• “The Supreme Court suggested in Baker that prolonged detention in the face of a person’s protestation of innocence may violate the Fourteenth Amendment.” (citing Baker v. McCollan, 443 U.S. 137, 143 (1979)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).