Fifth Circuit: Conviction Vacated Because No Reasonable Suspicion to Search Person in High-Crime Area by Anthony Accurso by Anthony Accurso The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversed a defendant’s conviction for possessing a firearm after determining officers lacked reasonable suspicion to stop and search him. Raymond L. …

Fourth Circuit: Commercial Vehicle Permit Requirement Insufficient Grounds to Initiate Traffic Stop by Anthony Accurso by Anthony Accurso The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that a law enforcement officer lacked reasonable suspicion of illegality when he initiated a traffic stop of a commercial vehicle based solely …

Second Circuit: Nondescript Photo of Unidentified Black Male Insufficient Grounds to Conduct Investigatory Stop by Anthony Accurso by Anthony Accurso The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed a lower court order denying defendant’s evidence suppression motion on the grounds that a photo, which provided very little identifying …

$90,042.12 Awarded in Fees and Costs in Seattle Terry Stop Case by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson  On August 4, 2011, a federal court in Washington state granted attorneys’ fees and costs on a Plaintiff’s Terry stop verdict. Yet the court reduced the $418,000 fee award request to just $90,042.12 …

Ninth Circuit: Mere Passage of Time Doesn’t Attenuate Evidence From Initial Constitutional Violation by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that the passage of eight months from the time of the unlawful seizure of Nikolay P. Bocharnikov until he gave his …

$90,042.12 Awarded in Fees and Costs in Seattle Terry Stop Case by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On August 4, 2011, a federal court in Washington state granted attorneys’ fees and costs on a Plaintiff’s Terry stop verdict. Yet the court reduced the $418,000 fee award request to just $90,042.12 …

Thin Blue Lies-Pretextual Stops Undermine Police Legitimacy, Case Western Reserve Univeristy, 2016 Case Western Reserve Law Review Volume 66 | Issue 4 2016 Thin Blue Lies: How Pretextual Stops Undermine Police Legitimacy Jonathan Blanks Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/caselrev Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Jonathan Blanks, …