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Article • June 17, 2019 • from CLN July, 2019
Filed under: Searches, Police
Washington Supreme Court Rules Attenuation Doctrine Inapplicable Where Police Illegally Seize Person Followed by Ferrier Warnings and Consent to Search, Evidence Must Be Suppressed by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Supreme Court of Washington held that the federal attenuation doctrine is not incompatible with the exclusionary rule of article …
Article • June 17, 2019 • from CLN July, 2019
Filed under: Trials, Police
Jury Takes Just 9 Minutes to Find Man Who Blared ‘F--k tha Police’ Toward Cops Not Guilty by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell It took a jury just nine minutes to come back with a verdict of “not guilty” in the trial of a man charged with blaring the 1988 …
Article • May 16, 2019 • from CLN June, 2019
Filed under: Police
Criticizing Cops is a Criminal Act in Many States by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Most people are aware that slander and libel are civil torts for which they may be sued. In 1964, the U.S. Supreme Court set the standard of proof to be “actual malice” to prevail in …
Article • May 16, 2019 • from CLN June, 2019
Illinois Data Collection Law Set to Expire; Collected Data Reveal Police Target Black and Latino Drivers by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney A law in Illinois that requires data to be reported from state and local police to the Illinois Department of Transportation is set to expire this July. Because …
Article • May 16, 2019 • from CLN June, 2019
Filed under: Police, Racial Profiling
The Many Pitfalls Associated With Police Lineups by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon  Anyone who has ever watched a police drama on television is acquainted with the way suspect lineups are supposed to be conducted. The key words here are “supposed to be conducted.” While many agencies probably conduct lineups …
Brief • May 16, 2019
Hines v. Johnson, NC, Complaint,Illegal Arrest and Seizure, 2019 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA GREENSBORO DIVISION NO. 1:19-CV-515 ARIS HINES & BRANDI THOMASON, Plaintiffs, : : : : TERRY S. JOHNSON, individually and : in his Official capacity as Sheriff of : Alamance County, …
Article • May 15, 2019 • from CLN June, 2019
Don’t Shoot the Dogs: The Growing Epidemic of Cops Shooting Family Dogs by John W. Whitehead by John W. Whitehead, Commentary, The Rutherford Institute In too much of policing today, officer safety has become the highest priority. It trumps the rights and safety of suspects. It trumps the rights and safety …
Article • May 15, 2019 • from CLN June, 2019
Dallas County Judge’s ‘Blank Check’ Warrant Questioned; Case Dismissed by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell  A Dallas County, Texas, judge who cops said would sign a blank warrant allowing them to do whatever they wanted was called into question by the District Attorney’s Office, which chose to drop the issue. …
When Prosecuting Crimes by Police, Feds Appear to Move Slowly by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon  In November 2013, Hickory, North Carolina, police Sergeant Robert George allegedly removed a woman driver from her auto and slammed her face-first onto the ground. She required corrective surgery.  Charged by local prosecutors in …
Article • May 15, 2019 • from CLN June, 2019
First Circuit: FBI’s Ruse Claiming National Emergency to Obtain Consent to Search Held Unlawful by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit held that a search wherein FBI agents lied about an emergency in order to gain consent to search a suspect’s computers …
Article • May 15, 2019 • from CLN June, 2019
Filed under: Police, Constitution, state
Connecticut Supreme Court Rejects Davis and Announces State Constitution Requires Police to Clarify Ambiguous Request for Counsel Before Continuing Interrogation by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Supreme Court of Connecticut held that the state constitution requires police to clarify an ambiguous request for counsel before continuing to interrogate a …
Article • May 15, 2019 • from CLN June, 2019
Flipping the Bird, Even Toward a Cop, Is a Constitutionally Protected Right by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed that raising one’s middle finger without the four other fingers showing is an expression protected by the First Amendment. In doing so, …
$25,000 Settlement Over Connecticut False Arrest and Malicious Prosecution Claims by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson The City of Norwalk, Connecticut, paid $25,000 to settle false arrest and malicious prosecution claims against a Norwalk Police Department (NPD) detective. On October 3, 2013, Robert Ragsdale complained to the NPD that he …
$160,000 Paid by Norwalk, Connecticut, to Settle Police Beating of COPD Patient by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson The City of Norwalk, Connecticut, paid $160,000 to settle false arrest and excessive force claims against several Norwalk Police Department (“NPD”) officers. At about 5:40 a.m., on September 8, 2011, William Irwin …
Seales v. City of Detroit, MI, Amended Judgment, Wrongful Arrest, 2019 Case 4:12-cv-11679-GAD-DRG ECF No. 201 filed 04/19/19 PageID.3185 Page 1 of 2 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN SOUTHERN DIVISION MARVIN SEALES, Case No.: 12-11679 Honorable Gershwin A. Drain v. THOMAS ZBERKOT, Defendant. ___________________________/ AMENDED JUDGMENT This …
Article • April 13, 2019
California Police Unions Balk at New Law Requiring Transparency in Officer-Involved Shootings and Use-of-Force Incidents by Chad Marks by Chad Marks California police unions are bringing their fight against a new transparency law -- Senate Bill 1421 -- to the courts, suing local governments in what looks like a losing …
Article • April 12, 2019 • from CLN May, 2019
Filed under: Police Misconduct, Police
Police Not Required to Protect; Are They Required to Serve? by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke At a recent hearing, former Broward County, Florida, Sheriff’s Deputy Scot Peterson claimed that he had no legal duty to protect the children inside the Parkland high school he was assigned to while Nikolas …
Article • April 12, 2019 • from CLN May, 2019
Federal Judge Rules Massachusetts Law Banning Secretly Recording Police in Public Is Unconstitutional by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts ruled that secretly recording the police in public is protected by the First Amendment and that a Massachusetts law forbidding such activity …
Article • April 12, 2019 • from CLN May, 2019
Filed under: Police Misconduct, Police
Former New Jersey Police Chief Faces Rare Federal Hate Crime Charges by A U.S. district judge ruled in December 2018 that federal hate crime charges against a now-retired New Jersey police chief – the first of their kind in about decade – will not be dismissed, paving the way to trial.  …
Article • April 12, 2019 • from CLN May, 2019
Florida Cop Found Guilty of Killing Stranded Driver, a First in 30 Years in State by In a history-making decision, jurors in West Palm Beach, Florida, found Nouman Raja guilty of manslaughter with a firearm and first-degree attempted murder—the first time in three decades a Florida cop has been convicted …
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