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First Circuit· 2/26/1996

United States v. McCarthy

Citations

  • 77 F.3d 522
  • 1996 U.S. App. LEXIS 3109
  • 1996 WL 71688

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that seventy-five-minute detention in locked rear passenger compartment of police car was not de facto arrest
  • chronicling cases in which detentions of much longer duration than thirty minutes have been approved
  • finding seventy-five minute detention remained a Terry stop because officers were not \engaged in dilatory tactics\ and \their investigative efforts [were] reasonable under the circumstances\
  • noting, in finding that detention was a permissible Terrystop, that the suspect \was never handcuffed\ and was told he was not under arrest
  • identifying reasonable suspicion to stop vehicle matching suspect’s reported “red Pontiac Sunbird” in area of alleged crime
  • defendant did not have legitimate expectation of privacy in items left at a trailer after he was told to vacate the trailer

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Judges: Stahl, Campbell, Lynch

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