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U.S. v. Acosta-Colon, No. 97-1170 (1st Cir.) (157 F.3d 9) (October 6, 1998) (Judge Norman H. Stahl)

Case held that Federal officials who handcuffed an airport traveller and removed him to an interrogation room for nearly 30 minutes, causing him to miss a flight, effected a de facto arrest which required probable cause.

 

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