Minnesota Supreme Court Announces No Duty to Retreat When Using Reasonable Force in Defense of Another and Provides Framework for Analyzing Such Claims by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In a case of first impression, the Supreme Court of Minnesota affirmed a Court of Appeals (“COA”) decision holding that a …

Civil Rights Investigation Sought Over “No-Knock” Raid On Wrong Michigan Home by A Michigan family terrorized by state police raiding their Flint home to erroneously execute a “no-knock” warrant requested a federal civil rights investigation on June 7, 2021, according to a report by MLive. After the raid on April …

Ohio Supreme Court: Jury Must Find Use of Force, Not Sentencing Court, for Mandatory Minimum Sentences by Anthony Accurso by Anthony Accurso The Supreme Court of Ohio held that a determination as to whether a defendant used force in the commission of the offense – a finding which raises the …

Georgia Supreme Court Affirms Right to Resist Unlawful Arrest and Announces Right Includes Use of Proportionate Force Against Government Property by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Supreme Court of Georgia affirmed that the common-law right to resist an unlawful arrest continues to be the law in Georgia and announced …

Fordham Urban Law Journal, NY, Officer Use of Force and the Failure of Oversight of New York City Jails, 2020 Fordham Urban Law Journal Volume 47 Number 5 Article 4 2020 Officer Use of Force and the Failure of Oversight of New York City Jails Jennifer Ferentz Follow this and …

An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2018 NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF RACIAL DIFFERENCES IN POLICE USE OF FORCE Roland G. Fryer, Jr Working Paper 22399 http://www.nber.org/papers/w22399 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA …