People v. Bloyd

Fitzgerald, C.J.,

Kavanagh, J., and Levin, J. This opinion was written by Justice Blair Moody, Jr., prior to his death on November 26, 1982. We concur in this opinion and adopt it as our own.

We are faced with the seizure, detention, and transportation of a person in a police car at a time when the officers were without probable cause to believe that a crime had been committed and without probable cause to believe that the person had committed a crime.

We hold that under the facts of this case, a person may not be seized, detained, and questioned, and then transported in a police car from one…