Originally Posted by
cyccommute
Holding you for hours in the back of a patrol car isn't arrest. It's detaining you until they can confirm your identity. Nothing you can do about that.
Again, reread Hiibel, the Supreme Court intimated a reasonable time of up to about 45 minutes as an outside for detaining soemone to establish identity (assuming you give them a correct name and birth date). With todays computer systems in police cars, linked to databases that can call up your drivers license, arrest record, warrents, convictions, etc.; even 45 minutes would likely be considered excessive by a court.