[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in The Chief’s Chronicle; New York State Association of Chiefs of Police. Reprinted with permission. In my two prior...
[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]Jones v. United States, (D.C. Ct. App. 2017) Prince Jones, not a real prince of a guy, called two escorts. When they showed up, he forced them to perform sex acts at...
[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]Roell v. Hamilton Board of Commissioners, et al., (6th Cir. 2017) Gary Roell had a serious, chronic mental illness. He quit taking his anti-psychotic medications in June...
[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]Stephenson v. Neal, (7th Cir. 2017) John Stephenson was convicted of killing three people in 1996. Though the trial lasted eight months, the jury only took one day to...
[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]United States v. Bauzó-Santiago, (1st Cir. 2017) Jaime Bauzó-Santiago wrote a letter to the judge presiding over his trial for illegal possession of a firearm. The letter...
[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]State v. Martinez, (Utah 2017) George Martinez was a passenger in car stopped for a vehicle registration violation. The officer asked both the driver and Martinez for...
[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]Editor's note: This article originally appeared in The Chief’s Chronicle; New York State Association of Chiefs of Police A successful civil rights case brought under 42 USC...
[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]United States v. Stimler, 2017 WL 3080866 (3rd Cir. 2017) Using their collective authority to act as a beth din rabbinical court, a trio of Orthodox Jewish rabbis—Binyamin...
[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]United States v. Gonzalez, (7th Cir. 2017) At 1300, on Oct. 30, 2013, Conrad Gonzalez should have been at a supervised visit with his young daughter. Instead, he chose to...
[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]United States v. Spivey, (11th Cir. 2017) Caleb Hunt burgled the home of Austin and Spivey. Twice, in fact. He found the takings so good the first time that he returned....
[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]Alvarez v. City of Brownsville, 860 F.3d 799 (5th Cir. 2017) In many jurisdictions across the nation, prosecutors are taking a more aggressive stance on Brady/Giglio lists....
[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]As we’ve followed the rapid development of Fourth Amendment jurisprudence related to cell site location information (CSLI), we’ve told you about several cases likely to...
