Court Opinion

ID: 9463221
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 23:01:03.942505+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:37:59.451856
License: Public Domain

HUFSTEDLER, Circuit Judge
(dissenting in part):
I dissent from that portion of the majority opinion stating that O’Looney’s statement need not be suppressed even if his detention was illegal. I agreed that his detention was not illegal, and the whole discussion is unnecessary to the decision. Upon the majority’s assumed premise of illegality, I could not brush off the violation of the Fourth Amendment as de minimis nor could I agree that O’Looney’s acts and statement were either voluntary or purged from illegal taint. Illegal detention for hours in the coercive atmosphere of a police station is not lightly to be overlooked.