A California Sheriff Remains Free To Rob Armored Cars Carrying Money From State-Licensed Marijuana Businesses
A federal judge declined to issue a temporary restraining order, saying the evidence of legal violations is insufficient at this point.
A federal judge declined to issue a temporary restraining order, saying the evidence of legal violations is insufficient at this point.
"Active bystandership" training encourages officers to stop their colleagues from violating people's rights.
Thomas Lane, J. Alexander Kueng, and Tou Thao are charged with federal crimes for failing to stop Derek Chavin from killing Floyd.
The Institute for Justice argues that the seizures violated state law, federal law, and the U.S. Constitution.
Politicians and cops found creative ways to dodge responsibility in 2021.
The Institute for Justice wants the Supreme Court to review the case—and to clarify the proper scope of "investigatory stops."
Keddins Etienne's experience shows that bullies who seize innocent people's property tend to back down when their victims put up a fight.
The Supreme Court's notion of "fair notice," which it says requires blocking many civil rights lawsuits, is based on a demonstrably false assumption.
Cops thought Hoang Vinh Pham, who received a 15-year prison sentence, was suspicious because he stared at a police van full of marijuana.
"We are not eager—more the reverse—to print a new permission slip for entering the home without a warrant," declared Justice Kagan in Lange v. California.
The report from the attorney general's office also found that Aurora paramedics used ketamine illegally to treat "excited delirium."
The 32 charges include manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, and second-degree assault.
Otis Mallet's ordeal, like the deaths of Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas, involved a fictional drug purchase.
A jury convicted the former Minneapolis police officer of murder and manslaughter in April, nearly a year after Floyd's death set off nationwide protests.
Polling shows a sharp partisan divide on the issue, but it also suggests that compromise might be possible.
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Cops laugh about “probable cause on four legs” but the damage to innocent lives is real.
SCOTUS will soon decide whether to hear José Oliva’s argument that he should be allowed to sue V.A. officers for violating his Fourth Amendment rights.
The federal charges against Chauvin and three other officers involved in George Floyd's death are more about making a statement than seeking justice.
Bans on dangling objects are just one example of the myriad petty rules that give police the power to stop nearly any driver at will.
The guilty verdicts on all three counts reflect the logical force of the prosecution's case as well as the emotional impact of watching the assault on George Floyd.
"This wasn't policing," the prosecution says. "This was murder."
The defense rested without calling Chauvin to the stand, and closing arguments are expected on Monday.
That was one of several eyebrow-raising claims made by Barry Brodd, who said Derek Chauvin's actions were "objectively reasonable."
The defense will have to cast doubt on at least one of those claims.
Andrew Baker's account, like the testimony of other medical experts, implicates Derek Chauvin in Floyd's death.
The witnesses rejected the defense's suggestion that Floyd might have died from a drug overdose.
A use-of-force expert says the officers who pinned George Floyd to the ground should have recognized the risk of positional asphyxia.
Medaria Arradondo says Chauvin's treatment of George Floyd violated department policy in several important ways.
Richard Zimmerman's testimony contradicts the defense claim that Derek Chauvin "did exactly what he had been trained to do."
If drugs played a role in Floyd's death, the prone restraint only compounded that danger.
The defense will have a hard time showing that Chauvin's conduct was justified by any threat Floyd posed.
“There was no immediate danger,” Sotomayor said, yet the police “decided on their own to go in and seize the gun.”
After gratuitously terrifying a 6-year-old girl, the officers blamed her mother, who also had done nothing illegal.
Art Acevedo responded to a 2019 drug raid that killed a middle-aged couple with reflexive defensiveness and obstinate obfuscation.
But the agreement could complicate Derek Chauvin's murder trial, and it leaves unresolved the question of whether qualified immunity would have blocked the lawsuit.
Like the felony murder charge, it carries a presumptive sentence more than eight years longer than the manslaughter charge.
The justices did not address one of James King's key arguments, which the 6th Circuit will now consider.
They need not wait for the Supreme Court or Congress to restrict or abolish qualified immunity.
An independent panel concludes there was no legal justification for stopping, frisking, arresting, or assaulting McClain.
A bill approved by the state House would let people sue government officials for violating rights protected by the state constitution.
The appeals court concluded that the officers' use of force was reasonable in the circumstances.
The former attorney general reportedly nixed a plea deal that involved a sentence of more than 10 years but would have precluded a federal prosecution.
A state law eliminated qualified immunity as a defense for abusive officers.
The families of Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas say the city's policies and practices invited Fourth Amendment violations.
After breaking into Tuttle's home with no legal justification, police killed his dog and his wife.
So far a dozen narcotics officers have been charged as a result of the investigation triggered by the disastrous operation.