On July 24, 2020, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decided Siders v. City of Eastpointe[i], in which the court answered the question presented in the title of this article. To set the stage for the case, the Circuit Judge [...]
On July 9, 2020, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals decided Shelton v. Stevens[i], in which the court examined whether an officer who stomped on a resistive suspect’s ankle, as several officers had the suspect on the ground, violated the [...]
On July 22, 2020, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decided Monzon v. City of Murrieta[i], in which the court examined whether officers used excessive force when they shot a driver after a vehicle pursuit when the driver drove in [...]
On July 23, 2020, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals decided the United States v. Santiago-Francisco[i], in which the court examined whether officers had sufficient reasonable suspicion to stop a car that was occupied by a passenger suspected of illegal [...]
On July 15, 2020, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals reheard the United States v. Curry[i], in which the court examined whether a stop of a person near the scene of a “shots fired” call, was reasonable under the “special [...]
The Court of Appeals of Georgia decided Allen v. City of Atlanta,[i] in which the court sided with an officer who was suspended without pay for a shooting in which a passenger in a car was accidentally shot when the [...]
In Williams v. Boehrer,[i] the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals examined whether two deputies that shot a man with a knife were entitled to official immunity from suit under state law. The relevant facts of Williams, taken directly from the [...]
On June 11, 2020, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals decided the United States v. Yarbrough[i], which serves as an excellent review of the law related to protective sweeps of residences. In Yarbrough, a detective received “unverified, anonymous phone calls [...]
On June 8, 2020, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals decided the United States v. Morales[i], which serves as an excellent review of the law related to the “scope” of an investigation. The relevant facts of Morales, taken directly from [...]
On June 23, 2021, the Supreme Court of the United States decided Lange v. California.[i] The issue before the court was whether the pursuit of a fleeing misdemeanor suspect categorically allowed the police to enter the suspect’s residence without a [...]