Category: Legal/Case Law

Justifying a No-Knock Entry

Justifying a No-Knock Entry

[vc_section css=".vc_custom_1540328728009{padding-top: 3em !important;padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"][vc_column width="2/3"]Geiger v. Sloan, 780 Fed. Appx. 150 (5th Cir. 2019) An officer prepared an affidavit for a no-knock search warrant at...

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Handcuffs as a De-escalation Tool, Not a De Facto Arrest

Handcuffs as a De-escalation Tool, Not a De Facto Arrest

[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. Eatman, 2019 (7th Cir. 2019) An apartment security guard called police after Micha Eatman’s girlfriend...

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Broken Faith: Former Cop Spends 13 Years Locked Up Due to Bungling Prosecutor and Lying Witness

Unnecessary Bathroom Chaperone Was Intrusion of Bodily Privacy

[vc_section css=".vc_custom_1540328728009{padding-top: 3em !important;padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"][vc_column width="2/3"]Ioane v. Hodges, 2018 (9th Cir. 2019) Over 13 years ago (who says that justice isn’t speedy?), Internal Revenue Service...

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