[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]United States v. Wallace, 857 F.3d 685 (5th Cir. 2017), United States v. Riley, (6th Cir. 2017) Recent cases from the 5th and 6th Circuits provide insight into the courts’...
[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]United States v. Gorman, (9th Cir. 2017) A trooper stopped Gorman for a left lane passing violation on the interstate freeway. The trooper’s conversation with Gorman caused...
[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]United States v. Orozco, (9th Cir. 2017) Troopers received a tip that a tractor-trailer with a white box trailer and Michigan license plates was carrying illegal drugs....
[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]United States v. Rosario, (N.D. Ill. 2017) After a burglary of a store that sold guns and rare coins, investigators obtained subscriber information for a phone number from...
What standard applies when officers use force to prevent a subject’s death or serious injury?
[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]People v. Bryant, (Cal. App. 2nd Dist. 2017) Officers investigating a noise and trespassing complaint in an apartment parking lot spoke with Bryant as he sat in a car. An...
[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]Almost 27 years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Graham v. Connor and established that claims of excessive force by law enforcement officers should be judged under an...
[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]United States v. Stegall, (8th Cir. 2017) During a road rage incident, Stegall brandished a gun at the other driver. The driver called 911 and dispatch broadcast a...
[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]Commonwealth v. Crowley-Chester, (Mass. 2017) Two officers saw a car parked in front of a vacant lot and across the street from a church at 0300. The motor was running and...
[vc_section css=".vc_custom_1540328728009{padding-top: 3em !important;padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"][vc_column width="2/3"]Turner v. Driver, 2017 WL 650186 (5th Cir. 2017) Turner was video recording a police station. Two officers drove up and...
[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]United States v. Robinson, 846 F.3d 694 (4th Cir. 2017) (en banc) An anonymous caller told police that he had just “witnessed a black male in a bluish greenish Toyota Camry...
[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...
