In re Darryl P.

This appeal raises a single contention. An analysis of that contention, however, implicates enough issues to justify a semester of law school. It is, in a phrase, Hydra-headed. The opinion turns out to be a study of differences. There is a potentially critical difference between an unlawful arrest and an unconstitutional arrest. There is a difference between a federal violation and a state violation. Even at the state level, *120there is a significant difference between a constitutional violation and a sub-constitutional violation. An analysis of these differences is necessary to identify the…