Supreme Court· 3/20/1985

United States v. Sharpe

Citations

470 U.S. 675
105 S. Ct. 1568
84 L. Ed. 2d 605
1985 U.S. LEXIS 74
53 U.S.L.W. 4346

How courts have described this case

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

holding that a detention was not unreasonable where officers, though slowed down, were diligent in their investigation
holding that a detention was not unreasonable where officers, though slowed down, were diligent in their investigation
holding that a DEA agent had a reasonable suspicion that a driver of a car was involved in marihuana trafficking when the agent testified: 1
recognizing that its Fourth Amendment precedents “may in some instances create difficult line-drawing problems in distinguishing an investigative stop from a de facto arrest”
holding that in distinguishing a true investigative stop from a de facto arrest, the court must not adhere to “rigid time limitations” or “bright line rules.”
holding that a twenty-minute detention was reasonably/-when the police acted diligently and the defendant contribute to the delay

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Judges: Burger, White, Blackmun, Powell, Rehnquist, O'Connor, Black-Mun, Marshall, Brennan, Stevens

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