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Task: Involuntarily Transporting a Person to the Station


           Kaupp v. Texas, 538 U.S. 626 (2003).

                A person involuntarily transported to a police station has been arrested for

                4 Amendment purposes. No person can be involuntarily transported to a
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                police station unless the police have probable cause to believe that person

                has committed a crime.

           •    Confessions obtained as the result of such an arrest are invalid unless

                illegality has been overcome by:

                  – Proper Miranda warnings and;


                  – Passage of time between illegal arrest and confession.

                  – Presence of Intervening Circumstances.


                  – Consider the flagrancy and purpose of the official misconduct or

                       the inverse, the lack of flagrancy and the good purpose behind

                       the official misconduct.








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