DUI checkpoints, so long as properly conducted, are constitutional. Requiring the driver of a car stopped at a DUI checkpoint to display his driver’s license is also constitutional. Using a minimal amount of physical force to arrest a driver with probable cause to believe he is driving without a valid driver’s license...
The use of social media by a public employee to denigrate minority religious groups may potentially subject the employee to internal discipline by his employer.
To be valid, a search warrant must reflect merely a “fair probability” that the items sought will be found in that location described.
Interrogating police officers have no authority to offer criminal suspects leniency in exchange for a confession.
Using a minor traffic offense as a pretext for making a traffic stop so that a more serious criminal offense can be investigated is lawful. However, absent developing at least a reasonable suspicion to believe that a more serious offense is being committed, a traffic stop cannot be prolonged past the amount of time it...
A Miranda violation, not being the equivalent of a violation of the Fifth Amendment, does not provide a defendant with the basis for a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 lawsuit.
A nuance in the law, doesn’t come up that often, but makes a clear distinction in arrest and charging. DCA rules that a threat of force or violence against a third person doesn't include suspect's threat to kill himself.
Bivens-based civil suits are not to be extended beyond what has already been decided absent meeting some very stringent-provided case law requirements.
Running a criminal history and warrant check during a lawful traffic stop, as a part of the “mission” of the traffic stop detention, do not unlawfully prolong the duration of the traffic stop.
Arresting a person for exercising their First Amendment freedom of speech is illegal.
