{"id":62562,"date":"2025-12-25T16:19:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T21:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62562"},"modified":"2025-12-25T19:35:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T00:35:28","slug":"tx2-taking-car-keys-doesnt-make-an-investigative-detention-into-a-custodial-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62562","title":{"rendered":"TX2: Taking car keys doesn&#8217;t make an investigative detention a custodial arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201c[A]n officer&#8217;s confiscation of a suspect&#8217;s keys during an investigative detention does not automatically escalate the stop into a custodial arrest.\u201d Here, it was a DUI stop and taking the keys was for safety reasons. <a href=\"https:\/\/search.txcourts.gov\/SearchMedia.aspx?MediaVersionID=305c6c51-72f3-4ac1-8ee3-b7d9b10cff29&amp;MediaID=eb34232d-5b69-4e86-80d1-6cc878727cb6&amp;coa=%22%20+%20this.CurrentWebState.CurrentCourt%20+%20@%22&amp;DT=Opinion\">Bwondara v. State<\/a>, 2025 Tex. App. LEXIS 9890 (Tex. App. \u2013 Ft. Worth Dec. 23, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant was a police officer tried and acquitted in state court for the shooting death of Breonna Taylor. Then he was tried federally for a civil rights violation and convicted of violating her Fourth Amendment rights. He gets bail pending appeal. If he succeeds on one issue, he can\u2019t be retried. If on the other, there\u2019s a new trial. There is a strong presumption of detention, but government agrees this is extraordinary. United States v. Hankison, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 33314 (6th Cir. Dec. 19, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The proof of connection between defendant and the murder victim was so substantial, including defendant\u2019s DNA practically everywhere, the CSLI doesn\u2019t add much of anything. Tandy v. State, 2025 Ind. App. LEXIS 421 (Dec. 22, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c[A]n officer&#8217;s confiscation of a suspect&#8217;s keys during an investigative detention does not automatically escalate the stop into a custodial arrest.\u201d Here, it was a DUI stop and taking the keys was for safety reasons. Bwondara v. State, 2025 Tex. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62562\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrest-or-entry-on-arrest","category-cell-site-location-information"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62562"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62569,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62562\/revisions\/62569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}