Scenario: potential school shooting threat. Parents of possible suspect are uncooperative as to their son’s whereabouts. How much force can you employ to detain them? Are you protected with qualified immunity if it goes sideways? A Sacramento…
Video evidence tells a very different story than what this deputy and his partner wrote in their reports of a suspect’s chase and arrest. An appeals court decision in February allows the case to proceed to trial on the charged offenses.
In a January appellate decision, the court compared the intrusiveness of fixed cameras throughout a city capturing public movements and cellphone and aerial surveillance compiled while tracking an individual’s movements over a length of time. Big…
A federal case decided in February delves into issues of conflicting consent to search a residence when tenants disagree, and perhaps more importantly, whether the one objecting is in the “immediate vicinity” of the residence for his objection to…
Officers park behind and approach a man talking on his phone in his car, illuminating him with their flashlights. After some casual conversation, they discover he’s on parole, search and find a gun. The trial court ruled one way, the appeals court…
