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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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Jim Chapman
- Nov 12, 2021
- 8 min
Search of a handcuffed suspect’s backpack ruled unlawful by the Fourth Circuit.
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...
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Jim Chapman
- Nov 12, 2021
- 4 min
The warrantless confiscation of firearms is unconstitutional.
Author: Jim Chapman In Caniglia v. Strom, ___ U.S. ___, 141 S. Ct. 1596 (2021), the United States Supreme Court was asked to decide the...
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Jim Chapman
- Nov 12, 2021
- 10 min
Is a hearty handshake evidence of a crime?
Author: Jim Chapman In United States v. Drakeford, 992 F.3d 255 (4th Cir. 2021), Defendant Tremayne Drakeford was arrested and charged...
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Charles N Braun II
- Nov 12, 2021
- 4 min
AMERICAN LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS WHAT TYPES OF LAWS DO THEY NEED TO COMPLY WITH AND WHY
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...
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Jim Chapman
- Nov 12, 2021
- 6 min
Reasonable delays are okay.
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...
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Jim Chapman
- Nov 12, 2021
- 8 min
Qualified Immunity
Author: Jim Chapman Recently, the United States Supreme Court issued two opinions which establish that the doctrine of qualified immunity...
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