QUESTION
Can law enforcement move a person, while handcuffed, in a police vehicle if that person is not under arrest?
Asked on May 06th, 2015 on Criminal Law - Pennsylvania
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Are they required to inform the suspect of the arrest at the point of being handcuffed, or is the arrest articulated at the precinct? Isn't moving a person who is not arrested considered abduction?
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Normally, law enforcement tells a person we are arresting you or you need to come to the station, or we are taking you in. Whatever. For police just to walk up to someone and handcuff them and haul them away is pretty strange. If that is what you allege, they will deny it anyway.
Answered on May 08th, 2015 at 8:40 AM
William R. Pelger, Attorney Munhall, Pennsylvania 412-461-1900