· 10/4/2023
Rash, Clayton v. Fine Line Transportation, LLC
Citations
- 2023 TN WC 72
How courts have described this case
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- holding that police may not remove person from home and bring to station-house for fingerprinting based on “reasonable suspicion” alone
- holding that “[t]here is thus support in our cases for the view that the Fourth Amendment would permit seizures for the purpose of fingerprinting, if there is reasonable suspicion that the suspect has committed a criminal act”
- explaining that police must have probable cause to effect seizures that are “sufficiently like arrests”
- holding that police cannot “forcibly remove a person from his home or other place in which he is entitled to be and transport him to the police station, where he is detained, although briefly, for investigative purposes” without probable cause
- holding fingerprints properly suppressed when defendant was arrested without probable cause, taken to police station without consent, and detained and fingerprinted for an investigative purpose
- deciding petitioner's involuntary transportation to police station without probable cause or judicial authorization for fingerprinting purposes violated petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights
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Judges: Pamela B. Johnson
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