United States Tenth Circuit

In a civil rights action claiming a prolonged detention of plaintiffs, summary judgment for defendant-officers is reversed in part where plaintiffs alleged facts sufficient to demonstrate the officers violated their clearly established constitutional rights because, while the circumstances the officers confronted initially supported a brief investigatory detention, objectively reasonable officers would not have prolonged the detention and searched the home on the facts before them.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/17/2010
• Published 08/17/2010

Judges

• Timothy M. Tymkovich

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Frances Crockett, Stephanie M. Griffin