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Appeals court hears challenge to extended DUI detention of Jackson officer
Summary
At oral argument, defense and state disputed whether officers unconstitutionally prolonged a DUI stop of Jackson police officer Ricky Allen while waiting for an independent trooper; the court took the case under advisement.
At an appellate oral argument, attorneys debated whether a roughly two‑hour detention of Jackson Police Department officer Ricky Allen during a traffic stop violated the Fourth Amendment.
The issue centered on whether the encounter became an arrest — and therefore required probable cause — long before an independent Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper arrived. Defense counsel Mark Donahoe argued the delay was objectively unreasonable; a prosecutor for the State, Ronald Coleman, told the court officers had probable cause and placed Allen under arrest within about 20 minutes.
Donahoe said the initial stop began at about 11:12 p.m. and that after an officer approached Allen’s vehicle and returned to his patrol car, “for 18 minutes, nothing happens.” He…
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