Court Opinion

ID: 9535331
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 04:48:06.222578+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:33:13.266788
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WAHL, Justice,
dissenting.
A detention after a stop must be reasonable in scope and duration. Florida v. Royer, 460 U.S. 491, 103 S.Ct. 1319, 75 L.Ed.2d 229 (1983) (plurality opinion); Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1, 88 S.Ct. 1868, 20 L.Ed.2d 889 (1968). The detention in this case was one hour in duration from the time of the initial stop, when the three defendants were placed in separate squad cars, until their “official” arrest. Because such a detention is unreasonable in length, I respectfully dissent. As Judge Forsberg noted in affirming the trial court, when the *121stop produced no new evidence giving the police probable cause to arrest, they had no basis for detaining the defendants further during the investigation of the crime scene. It has never been a constitutional tenet in this country that the end justifies the means. I would affirm.