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False Arrest & Search · Stops, Frisks & Detention

Stops, Frisks &
Detention

Every detention has a clock and a justification, and both live in the record. The analysis examines what reasonable suspicion actually existed at the stop, how it developed, and whether the length and character of the detention matched accepted police practice.

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The Scope

What this covers.

Within this engagement

  • Investigative stops and stop-and-frisk procedures
  • Reasonable-suspicion analysis
  • Unlawful detention and prolonged detention
  • False imprisonment
  • What officers knew and when they knew it
How it is analyzed

CAD and dispatch records, body-worn video, reports and statements, and the agency's stop and detention policies, laid against the timeline of what officers knew at each moment.

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Questions

Before the record is sent.

What separates a stop from a false arrest?
Practice-wise, the justification and the clock: what specific facts supported the stop, how the detention developed, and when it crossed into arrest territory. The opinion documents that timeline from the record; legal conclusions remain counsel's.
What does retention cost?
A non-refundable retainer of $8,000–$9,000 covering 29–33 hours of discovery review, report writing and conferences at $275 per hour. Most reports are completed within the retainer. The full published schedule is on the For Counsel page.
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Send the stop and detention record.

Attorney and law-firm inquiries only. Conflicts are checked before anything substantive, and you will hear about a conflict immediately.

Stop, frisk & detention inquiry

For counsel examining a stop, a frisk, or the length of a detention.

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