Author: Jim Chapman In United States v. Cole, ___ F.4d ___, 2021 WL 5984977 (7th Cir. Dec. 17, 2021), Defendant Janhoi Cole was charged...

Author: Jim Chapman Before his trial on gun and drug charges, Defendant Edwin Calligan moved to suppress evidence from the search of a...

Author: Jim Chapman Because the police suspected Rafael Tafoya of drug trafficking, they mounted a camera on a utility across the street...

Author: Jim Chapman In a prior opinion in this same case, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that the city of...

Author: Jim Chapman A jury in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana convicted Adonnis Carswell on four...

Author: Jim Chapman In Arizona v. Gant, 556 U.S. 332 (2009), the United States Supreme Court held that, incident to an arrest, a vehicle...

Author: Jim Chapman In Caniglia v. Strom, ___ U.S. ___, 141 S. Ct. 1596 (2021), the United States Supreme Court was asked to decide the...

Author: Jim Chapman In United States v. Drakeford, 992 F.3d 255 (4th Cir. 2021), Defendant Tremayne Drakeford was arrested and charged...

Author: Charles N Braun II, Attorney at Law CHECKLIST This writer has been practicing law for the last 44 years with a heavy emphasis on...

Author: Jim Chapman In Hall v. City of Chicago, 953 F.3 945 (7th Cir. 2020), the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit...

Author: Jim Chapman Recently, the United States Supreme Court issued two opinions which establish that the doctrine of qualified immunity...