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Seven Essential Steps of Due Process “A Guide for Supervisors & Policy Makers”
Author: George Perez In any fair and equitable workplace, the concept of "just cause" due process is paramount. Just cause and due...
George Perez
Aug 24, 20233 min read
Officers are immune from suit for executing a no-knock warrant on the wrong apartment.
Author: Jim Chapman In Penate v. Sullivan, ___ F.4th ___, 2023 WL 4446361 (1st Cir. July 11, 2023), Plaintiff/Appellant Isaura Penate...
Jim Chapman
Aug 10, 20238 min read
7th Circuit: Limited Privacy Rights for Home Confinement
Author: Jim Chapman In United States v. Beechler, 68 F.4th 358 (7th Cir. 2023), Defendant Travis Lee Beechler and his girlfriend, Kimia...
Jim Chapman
Jul 3, 20237 min read
The Fifth Circuit holds that the Defendant did not abandon his interests in his gun by tossing it...
Author: Jim Chapman Defendant Albert Ramirez Ramirez was convicted in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas...
Jim Chapman
Jun 2, 20236 min read
A Drunken Miranda Waiver is Still a Waiver
Author: Jim Chapman In September 2019, staff at a hotel in Camdenton, Missouri, called the police about an occupant who refused to leave...
Jim Chapman
May 1, 20235 min read
Wearing skinny jeans does not give reasonable suspicion
Author: Jim Chapman On February 3, 2019, at approximately 5:30 p.m., Officer Stephen Butler—an eight-year veteran of the Richmond...
Jim Chapman
Apr 3, 20237 min read
The Ninth Circuit holds that police officers violated the Fourth Amendment by removing the Defendant
Author: Jim Chapman In United States v. Baker, ___ F.4th ___, 2023 WL 1095359, (9th Cir. Jan. 30, 2023), the United States Court of...
Jim Chapman
Mar 1, 20237 min read
Community Caretaking and Inventory Searches
Author: Jim Chapman In United States v. Anderson, 56 F.4th 748 (9th Cir. 2022), the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit...
Jim Chapman
Feb 1, 20239 min read
Hit and Hold
Author: Jim Chapman In October 2018, DEA agents met with a confidential informant who told them that Defendant Troy Alexander was...
Jim Chapman
Jan 4, 202312 min read
The Fourth Circuit holds that a police officer did not mislead the Defendant into waiving his Sixth.
Author: Jim Chapman After a tortured procedural history, the case of United States v. Medley, 34 4th 326 (4th Cir. 2022), returned to the...
Jim Chapman
Dec 6, 20229 min read
Sixth Circuit holds evidence admissible despite rogue search of nearby trailer
Author: Jim Chapman In United States v. Torres, 2022 WL 13983627 (6th Cir. Oct. 24, 2022), the United States Court of Appeals for the...
Jim Chapman
Oct 31, 20226 min read
No qualified immunity for officers who stopped car with obscured temporary tag
Author: Jim Chapman In Clinton v. Garrett, 2022 WL 4362171 (8th Cir. Sept. 21, 2022), three Des Moines, Iowa, police officers stopped...
Jim Chapman
Oct 5, 20229 min read
Probing tactile examination constituted a warrantless search in violation of the Fourth Amendment
Author: Jim Chapman Defendant Nathaniel Johnson was traveling east on a Greyhound bus that stopped in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for...
Jim Chapman
Sep 6, 20227 min read
Tenth Circuit joins six other circuits in holding that it’s ok to video the police.
Author: Jim Chapman In Irizarry v. Yehia, ___ F.4th ___, 2022 WL 2659462 (10th Cir. July 11, 2022), the United States Court of Appeals...
Jim Chapman
Aug 1, 20224 min read
Search of a Hotel Hallway
Author: Jim Chapman In United States v. Lewis, ___ F.4d ___, 2022 WL 2206888 (7th Cir. June 21, 2022), the Defendant Dewayne Lewis asked...
Jim Chapman
Jun 30, 20227 min read
Officers who pepper spray a subdued suspect are not immune from suit
Author: Jim Chapman A little after midnight on February 5, 2017, three Tulsa, Oklahoma, Police Officers (Officers Will Mortensen, Angela...
Jim Chapman
Jun 3, 20227 min read
Child pornography convictions survive Miranda warning challenge
Author: Jim Chapman In United States v. Woodson, ___ 4th ___, 2022 WL 1101806 (11th Apr. 13, 2022), the United States Court of Appeals...
Jim Chapman
May 2, 202211 min read
Warrantless search of a license plate image approved by the district court as not violating the Four
Author: Jim Chapman According to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, law enforcement officers did not...
Jim Chapman
Apr 4, 20224 min read
Wrong Floor
Author: Jim Chapman On the evening of August 30, 2018, the Haverhill, Massachusetts, Police Department (“HPD”) received a phone call...
Jim Chapman
Mar 1, 20227 min read
But, You Have the Wrong Guy
Author: Jim Chapman In United States v. Mitra-Hernandez, 2022 WL 205419 (3d Cir. Jan. 24, 2022), the United States Court of Appeals for...
Jim Chapman
Feb 4, 20226 min read
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