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State v. Wheeler

Citations

  • 737 P.2d 1005
  • 108 Wash. 2d 230
  • 1987 Wash. LEXIS 1068

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that under the circumstances of the case, a five- to ten-minute detention did not exceed the scope of a Terry stop
  • \Frisking and handcuffing defendant for the 2-block ride back to the scene of the burglary was not impermissibly intrusive.\
  • “[F]risking and handcuffing defendant for the 2-block ride back to the scene of the burglary was not impermissibly intrusive.”
  • asking routine questions during booking does not constitute unlawful interrogation because such questions rarely elicit an incriminating response
  • permissible and not excessive under Terry stop to hold burglary suspect, frisk him, handcuff him, place him in patrol car and transport him to scene of crime
  • permissible and not excessive under Terry stop to hold burglary suspect, frisk him, handcuff him, place him in patrol car and transport him to scene of crime

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Dolliver, Dore, Brachtenbach, Andersen, Callow, Durham, Utter, Cunningham, Tern, Pearson

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