Officer did not use excessive force when moving subject inches through doorway
Facts Plaintiff Amanda Carter’s minor daughter attends Live Oak High School. In February 2022, an agent of the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services visited Carter and her husband Michael at their home to investigate a report of child abuse. After this visit, the Carters immediately drove to Live Oak to pick up their […]
Consent and inevitable discovery led to body
Facts In 2018, Terelle Johnson lived with his mother, Sherry Johnson, in her home in Stone County, Mississippi. On June 6, 2018, Sherry’s family members began to worry about her because no one had heard from her in a few days. Sherry’s brother, Derrick Johnson, whose house was approximately four hundred feet from Sherry’s house, […]
Police had reasonable suspicion to stop vehicle without seeing traffic violation
Facts Between January 4, 2023, and January 11, 2023, three teenage girls separately reported to the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office that a man driving a white pickup truck in the St. Martin community exposed himself to them. First was fourteen-year-old A.V., who told officers that as she was walking home from being dropped off by […]
Subject lacked standing to contest search warrant
Facts On the morning of June 16, 2022, Deputy Chad Caffrey with the Tate County Sheriff’s Department was dispatched to the Arkabutla Fire Station because “a male had been shot in the eye.” When Caffrey arrived, first responders were attending to “the male,” Calvin Armstrong. They determined Armstrong had been cut above his eye and […]
LPR is not a fourth amendment search
Facts The district court heard testimony from Charles Hoggard, a former officer for the Gautier Police Department. While on patrol in January 2024, Hoggard received an alert on his phone that an LPR located at a specific intersection captured the license plate of a vehicle that was associated with criminal activity. He contacted […]
BOLO contained considerable detail to justify reasonable suspicion for stop
Facts On June 9, 2020, at approximately 3:19 a.m. in Laredo, Texas, a witness called emergency dispatch to report hearing 7 or 8 shots in the air. The witness described that the shots were fired from a black SUV Cadillac near 2201 E. Travis Street. That black Cadillac SUV, which had a missing right rear […]