Opinion ID: 2386590
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Heading: Length of Detention

Text: [¶ 23] Lastly, Mr. Frazier asserts that the fifty-three minute wait for the canine unit to arrive was unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment. The reasonableness of the detention is to be measured by whether the police acted diligently under all the circumstances of the case and whether the detention involved delay unnecessary to a legitimate police inquiry. State v. Welch, 873 P.2d 601, 605 (Wyo.1994). The trooper called for the canine unit immediately after informing Mr. Frazier that he was detained. The canine handler, who responded from his home, lived north of Cheyenne and had to travel a distance of approximately 48 miles to reach the trooper's location. The record does not reflect any delay in requesting or responding to the call for the canine unit and Mr. Frazier suggests none. We have previously found that similar waiting times did not violate the Fourth Amendment. See id. at 605 (fifty-minute detention while canine unit was transported approximately 31 miles was reasonable). Mr. Frazier's detention while the canine unit was dispatched to his location was not unreasonable given the totality of the circumstances. [¶ 24] Affirmed.