United States v. Neugin 10thCIR 1MAY2020
Topic: Community Caretaking Exception did not apply to warrantless search of a vehicle. Officers responded to a reported verbal altercation between…
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Coke v. Colorado COLORADO SUPREME COURT 27APR2020
Topic: Lack of particularity in the warrant to search cell phone improperly authorized general search. Defendant Pamela Coke was charged with…
United States v. Rees 7thCIR 30APR2020
Topic: Probable Cause existed to support warrant and Good Faith Exception applied to the exclusionary rule. An FBI Child Exploitation Task…
Siler v. City of Kenosha 7thCIR 30APR2020
Topic: This is a use of force case involving deadly force. Kenosha Wisconsin police officer Torres was on patrol when he…
US v Garcia-Garcia 8thCIR 29APR2020
Topic: Consent to search not invalidated by the language barrier. The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of defendant's motion…
Goffin v. Ashcraft 8thCIR 24APR2020
Topic: Qualified Immunity granted for right not being clearly established. Based on a report by the burglary victim, who was Goffin’s…
Pennsylvania v. Trahey Pennsylvania Supreme Court 22 APR 2020
Topic: No exigent circumstances existed to justify a warrantless blood draw of DUI suspect. The trial court granted Timothy Trahey’s motion…
United States v. Ferebee 4thCIR 22APR2020
Topic: No REP in backpack in the possession of a person disavowing ownership. The Fourth Circuit affirmed the denial of defendant's…
Lund v. City of Rockford 7thCIR 20APR2020
Topic: Probable cause to arrest defeats a claim of retaliatory arrest in violation of the First Amendment. Lund, a reporter for…
UNITED STATES v. MAY-SHAW 6thCIR 8APR2020
Grand Rapids police received tips describing vehicles May-Shaw was using to transport drugs and a specific bag where he kept drugs,…