United States Fourth Circuit

Where the deputies specifically told the suspect that he could not leave, then threw him against a wall, kicked, handcuffed and locked him in the patrol car, he was arrested and not merely detained.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/23/2001
• Decided 05/17/2001
• Published 05/17/2001

Judges

• Before WIDENER and TRAXLER, Circuit Judges, and MALCOLM J. HOWARD, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Anton Joseph Stelly, Thompson, Smithers, Newman, Wade & Childress, Richmond, VA, for Defendants-Appellants. Thomas E. Albro, Tremblay & Smith, L.L.P., Charlottesville, VA, for Plaintiffs-Appellees. ON BRIEF:  Peter J. Caramanis, Tremblay & Smith, L.L.P., Charlottesville, VA, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.