What constitutes a police detention of constitutional significance?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Bower, 142 Cal.Rptr. 145, 75 Cal.App.3d 464 (Cal. App. 1977):
We consider first the concept of what constitutes a police detention of constitutional significance. Such a detention will occur where there has been no arrest, but as a result of some display of police authority one is physically deprived of his freedom of action in any significant way, in order to allow a temporary police investigation. (People v. Villareal, 262 Cal.App.2d 438, 445, 68 Cal.Rptr. 610.)
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