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...
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Jim Chapman
- Jan 4
- 12 min
Hit and Hold
Author: Jim Chapman In October 2018, DEA agents met with a confidential informant who told them that Defendant Troy Alexander was...
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Jim Chapman
- Dec 6, 2022
- 9 min
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...
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Jim Chapman
- Oct 31, 2022
- 6 min
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...
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Jim Chapman
- Oct 5, 2022
- 9 min
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...
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Jim Chapman
- Sep 6, 2022
- 7 min
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...
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Jim Chapman
- Aug 1, 2022
- 4 min
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...
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Jim Chapman
- Jun 30, 2022
- 7 min
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...
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Jim Chapman
- Jun 3, 2022
- 7 min
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...
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Jim Chapman
- May 2, 2022
- 11 min
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...
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Jim Chapman
- Apr 4, 2022
- 4 min
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...
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Jim Chapman
- Mar 1, 2022
- 7 min
Wrong Floor
Author: Jim Chapman On the evening of August 30, 2018, the Haverhill, Massachusetts, Police Department (“HPD”) received a phone call...
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Jim Chapman
- Feb 4, 2022
- 6 min
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...
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Jim Chapman
- Jan 7, 2022
- 9 min
Travel Plans
Author: Jim Chapman In United States v. Cole, ___ F.4d ___, 2021 WL 5984977 (7th Cir. Dec. 17, 2021), Defendant Janhoi Cole was charged...
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Jim Chapman
- Dec 1, 2021
- 6 min
The Seventh Circuit upholds a search warrant that contained false information.
Author: Jim Chapman Before his trial on gun and drug charges, Defendant Edwin Calligan moved to suppress evidence from the search of a...
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Jim Chapman
- Nov 12, 2021
- 9 min
The police’s use of a pole camera violation of the Fourth Amendment
Author: Jim Chapman Because the police suspected Rafael Tafoya of drug trafficking, they mounted a camera on a utility across the street...
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Jim Chapman
- Nov 12, 2021
- 5 min
Chalking tires to enforce parking law constitutes an illegal search.
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...
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Jim Chapman
- Nov 12, 2021
- 6 min
Probable cause for a search warrant.
Author: Jim Chapman A jury in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana convicted Adonnis Carswell on four...
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