Originally Posted by
CB HI
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.
They give no time. Only the provision that the stop "...permits the officer to stop the person for a brief time and take additional steps to investigate further". The "additional steps" allows lots of wiggle room. And while you might be in the right, that means nothing at the time that you are detained. It might mean something later but at the time of the incident, you'll still be sitting the back of the car or at a station somewhere while someone "sorts things out".