An Alabama D.A. Filed Legally Impossible Charges Against School Board Members Who Crossed Him
A board employee and a local reporter were arrested on the same bogus charge of divulging nonexistent grand jury secrets.
A board employee and a local reporter were arrested on the same bogus charge of divulging nonexistent grand jury secrets.
The ballot initiative says a whiff of weed does not establish probable cause for a search or seizure, which was already doubtful in light of hemp legalization.
A long-delayed conviction illustrates the difficulty of holding cops accountable for abusing their powers.
Former Louisville detective Brett Hankison is one of four officers who faced federal charges after a deadly 2020 drug raid.
Home equity theft happens when governments auction off seized houses and keep the profits—even once the tax bill is paid.
For more than three decades, the Institute for Justice has shown that economic freedom and private property are essential safeguards for ordinary Americans.
Without a warrant and specific proof of incriminating evidence, police should never be allowed past your phone’s lock screen.
That amounts to a life sentence for Gerald Goines, who instigated the no-knock raid that killed Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas by falsely accusing them of selling heroin.
The Supreme Court will review a 5th Circuit decision that let the officer off the hook without considering the recklessness that turned a routine traffic stop into a deadly encounter.
Similar scandals across the country suggest the problem is widespread.
The jury accepted the prosecution's argument that Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas died because of Gerald Goines' fraudulent search warrant affidavit.
But for Gerald Goines' lies on a search warrant affidavit, prosecutors argued, Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas would still be alive.
The outrageous seizure at the center of Rebel Ridge resembles real-life cash grabs.
But for a disastrous raid, narcotics officer Gerald Goines would have been free to continue framing people he thought were guilty.
Former narcotics officer Gerald Goines faces two murder charges for instigating the home invasion that killed Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas.
The ruling notes that Breonna Taylor’s death resulted from the "late-night, surprise manner of entry."
U.S. District Judge Charles Simpson concluded that the alleged facts did not support penalty enhancements for violating the Fourth Amendment but left several other charges in place.
Many circuit courts have said that law enforcement can hold your property for as long as they want. D.C.’s high court decided last week that’s unconstitutional.
An Illinois sheriff's deputy with a spotty employment history shot Sonya Massey in the face after responding to her report of a prowler.
Recent footage shows a federal agent attempting to search a citizen’s bag without their consent, despite precedent saying that’s illegal.
The decision clears the way for a jury to consider Megan and Adam McMurry's constitutional claims against the officers who snatched their daughter.
"of prescription medication, search her bag without permission, and find a firearm inside? And what happens when school board officials find out and want to question the perpetrator? Has the Fourth Amendment been transgressed?"
The court declined to address whether the search violated the Fourth Amendment and merely held that the evidence could not be excluded in a civil case.
Priscilla Villarreal is appealing a 5th Circuit decision that dismissed her First Amendment lawsuit against Laredo police and prosecutors.
The 9th Circuit determined that forcibly mashing a suspect's thumb into his phone to unlock it was akin to fingerprinting him at the police station.
Gerald Goines' lawyers argued that the indictment did not adequately specify the underlying felony of tampering with a government document.
A lawsuit from the Institute for Justice claims the law violates the Louisiana Constitution.
Even though police found no signs of drugs or other contraband, Holly Elish was strip-searched by Pennsylvania police officers.
Deputy Jesse Hernandez, whose bullets miraculously missed the handcuffed suspect in the car, resigned during an investigation that found he "violated policy."
An analysis of appeals involving the doctrine finds that less than a quarter "fit the popular conception of police accused of excessive force."
A federal judge allowed a lawsuit against the officers to proceed, finding evidence of several constitutional violations.
Tyler Harrington has filed a lawsuit after four police officers burst into his home in the middle of the night.
The verdict vindicates the constitutional rights that Louisiana sheriff's deputies flagrantly violated when they hauled Waylon Bailey off to jail.
The appeals court dismissed a civil rights lawsuit by a Laredo gadfly who was arrested for asking questions.
Since leaving Houston, Art Acevedo has bounced from job to job, continuing a spotty career marred by scandal.
Cases like this are exactly why the Fourth Amendment was adopted in the first place, wrote federal Judge Milan D. Smith Jr.
Juries convicted two paramedics and one police officer of criminally negligent homicide but acquitted two other cops.
Police officers already are routinely indemnified, and suing them for abuse is much harder than Trump claims.
A report from New Jersey's comptroller criticizes Street Cop Training for encouraging illegal traffic stops.
Years before a federal case shined a light on the problem, Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey should have known something was amiss.
Elisabeth Rehn was about to take a bath when police officers kicked down her door, flooded into her apartment, and pointed their guns at her.
"I asked them to show me a warrant; they didn't show me nothing," a grandmother said.
Court says the warrant was “constitutionally defective” but grants police a “good faith” exception.
The Michigan Supreme Court will hear opening arguments today in a case that could decide whether the practice is allowed.
In light of the state's marijuana reforms, the court says, the odor of weed is not enough to establish probable cause.
The late California senator always seemed to err on the side of more government power and less individual freedom.
The Nixon administration did everything it could to curb antiwar activism. Then the courts said it had gone too far.
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