United States v. Alphonso Polito

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that “case law indicates that parolees are neither totally stripped of nor fully invested with constitutional protections,” but that retaking a parolee is not the same as an arrest for constitutional purposes
• refusing to characterize arrest of parolee as an “arrest” for fourth amendment purposes
• refusing to characterize arrest of parolee as an \arrest\ for fourth amendment purposes
• because the status and rights of a parole violator are analogous to those of an escaped convict, his detention is “not an ‘arrest’ for Fourth Amendment purposes”
• “The difference in status and protection is based on the fact that parolees have been convicted of a crime and are still serving their sentence while on parole, al beit not within prison walls”
• “The difference in status and protection is based on the fact that parolees have been convicted of a crime and are still serving their sentence while on parole, albeit not within prison walls”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).