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· 11/20/1991

United States v. Dock Richardson

Citations

  • 949 F.2d 851
  • 1991 U.S. App. LEXIS 27371
  • 1991 WL 239583

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that law enforcement officers had crossed the line from an investigative detention into an arrest when they placed the defendant in the back of a police car
  • holding “that the taint of the illegal arrest vitiated [the defendant’s] consent and that the immediate fruits of the consent should have been suppressed”
  • finding that placing a suspect into the back of a police car for twenty minutes without probable cause constituted a blatant constitutional violation
  • holding that the reading of Miranda warnings is evidence of an arrest
  • finding that placing a suspect into the back of a police car for twenty minutes without probable cause constituted a blatant constitutional violation
  • finding that placing a suspect into the back of a police car for twenty minutes without probable cause constituted a blatant constitutional violation

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Judges: Keith, Wellford, Gadola

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