Senatobia officers are granted qualified immunity for stop of vehicle in middle of night at motel
Facts (If you are new to 1983 actions, click here for help) While on patrol around 3:00 a.m. in February 2021, Officer James Marshall observed a car in the parking lot of Dreamland Inn with someone in the driver’s seat and the engine running. Dreamland is known for drugs, prostitution, and other criminal activity. In […]
Qualified immunity denied for fired trooper
Facts (If you are new to 1983 actions, click here for help) At around 3:00 a.m. on July 10, 2018, Trooper Kasha Domingue stopped a vehicle. After the driver and another passenger fled, Clifton Scott Dilley exited the driver-side rear seat.There is some video evidence in this case. Trooper Kasha Domingue’s vehicle did not have […]
suicidality may create an exigency so compelling that a warrantless entry is objectively reasonable
Facts (If you are new to 1983 actions, click here for help) Steve Winder was enjoying an afternoon of swimming and drinks with family and friends when he accidentally got in his pool with his cell phone. So he went inside his house and charged his wife Latrisha’s old cell phone. She was in Fort […]
Impounding vehicle not proper when you could have arrested person but chose to not do so
Facts (If you are new to 1983 actions, click here for help) On March 20, 2022, Marc Degenhardt, age 18, was driving his parents’ black Dodge Challenger. His brother Augustus, age 20, rode as a passenger. The Challenger was stopped at a traffic light waiting to turn left onto a highway; a blue Dodge Charger […]
Troopers not liable for another trooper’s suicide
Facts (If you are new to 1983 actions, click here for help) In December 2020, the Louisiana State Police (LSP) Narcotics Division began investigating allegations that senior trooper August McKay was using fraudulent prescriptions to obtain controlled substances from a local pharmacy. As part of this investigation, LSP officers obtained a warrant to search August’s […]
Qualified immunity denied when Obese subject with congestive heart failure dies after chase
Facts (If you are new to 1983 actions, click here for help) Javier Ambler II was traveling on a Texas roadway in the early morning hours without dimming the high beams on his vehicle. A Texas sheriff’s deputy noticed and signaled for Ambler to stop, but Ambler refused. A high-speed pursuit then ensued as more […]