[vc_section css=".vc_custom_1540328728009{padding-top: 3em !important;padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"][vc_column width="2/3"]Brown v. Battle Creek Police Department, 844 F.3d 556 (6th Cir. 2016) A confidential informant reported that Jones was...
[vc_section css=".vc_custom_1540328728009{padding-top: 3em !important;padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"][vc_column width="2/3"]State v. Holman, 502 S.W.3d 621 (Mo. 2016) Holman’s wife shot him in the arm. Holman returned the favor by shooting his...
[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]White v. Pauly, (U.S. 2017) (per curiam) Many lawsuits against police officers are stopped short of a trial by the qualified immunity doctrine, which protects officers from...
[vc_section css=".vc_custom_1540328728009{padding-top: 3em !important;padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"][vc_column width="2/3"]United States v. Belser, 2016 WL 6821990 (E.D. Mich. 2016) Officers received a tip from a confidential informant that...
[vc_section css=".vc_custom_1540328728009{padding-top: 3em !important;padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"][vc_column width="2/3"]State v. White, 2016 WL 6825385 (Iowa 2016) An officer went to White’s home after a citizen saw a hit-and-run crash and...
[vc_section css=".vc_custom_1540328728009{padding-top: 3em !important;padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"][vc_column width="2/3"]United States v. Gilliam, 2016 WL 7009952 (2nd Cir. 2016) Gilliam physically forced a minor girl to accompany him from...
[vc_section css=".vc_custom_1540328728009{padding-top: 3em !important;padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"][vc_column width="2/3"]United States v. Patrick, 2016 WL 6892507 (7th Cir. 2016) Patrick failed to comply with his parole terms. Officers...
Ken Wallentine covers legal issues with traffic stops
[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]Earlier this year, Xiphos told you about using historical cell site location information (CSLI) to help convict Aaron Graham of armed robbery. Graham and his accomplice,...
An officer saw a car slow at an intersection, as if to turn. Then the driver paused and drove straight ahead. The officer checked the license plate and learned that the car had been reported as stolen. The officer followed the car, but lost it after a turn. He cruised...
[vc_section css=".vc_custom_1540328728009{padding-top: 3em !important;padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]Gutierrez ran a stop sign. An officer tried to pull her over and she sped up and drove to her mother’s apartment several blocks away. The...
[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]State v. Snyder, (Ariz. App. 2016) A grocery store security officer saw Snyder shoplift two steaks and place them in his backpack. The security officer and another person...
