Serving kosher foods to jews but not muslims would violate equal protection clause
Facts On August 26, 2017, Eric Lozano and other Stringfellow Unit inmates were evacuated to the Wallace Pack Unit due to Hurricane Harvey. Upon arrival, Lozano was informed that the Wallace Pack Unit did not serve kosher food. However, he subsequently learned that Jewish inmates who had been evacuated with him were receiving kosher meals. […]
Protective sweep of home properly conducted
Facts The Monroe, Louisiana Police Department (“MPD”) received a call on May 11, 2019, that someone with an AR rifle, or AR styled rifle, or long gun was firing rounds outside the Parkview Apartments. That complex is located in an extremely high-crime area. Officers could not find the shooter or the weapon, but they found […]
Handcuffing during a traffic stop does not equal custody for Miranda purposes in this case
Facts Braylon Coulter was driving an old van with squeaky brakes through a neighborhood at 2:41 a.m. on July 15, 2018. Officer Nino de Guzman of the Lancaster, Texas Police Department began following Coulter and discovered that the van was registered to an address in a different city, that its registration was expired, and that […]
Subject’s proficiency in English was not a barrier to his consent or statement
Facts In 2016, Gustavo Lopez was driving a GMC Sierra northbound on Interstate 59 when he was pulled over by Detective Daniel Quave with the Pearl River County Sheriff’s Office for following another vehicle too closely. According to Detective Quave’s incident report, Lopez was identified by his Guatemalan Identification Card, and Lopez stated he was in […]
Search warrant that did not comply with Rule 4.3 was found valid
Facts Since May 2017, agents with the DeSoto County Sheriff’s Office, Special Investigations Division, had received information based on other arrests that Fredrick Jenkins supplied marijuana to numerous individuals in the DeSoto County area. On February 2, 2018, the agents received information from a K9 deputy in Kansas (Deputy Kalen Robinson) that in late January […]
Medical care for inmate was not provided in this case
Facts Marshawn Williams and his longtime girlfriend, Lavina Smith, got into a physical altercation at their Yazoo City, Mississippi home. A witness alerted both Smith’s family and police. Smith’s family arrived first. Outraged that Williams had been violent to his sister, Smith’s brother hit Williams on the side with either a bedrail or a metal pipe. […]