Can a Suspect’s Bag be Searched ‘Incident to Arrest’ if the Bag was Removed During the Arrest?
Ms. Green had immediate control of the bag at the time of her arrest, it was va [...]
Was a Father’s Strike to the Knee of an Eleven-Year-Old Girl with a Large Wooden Stick Reasonable Parental Discipline or Domestic Violence?
Mr. Brown struck his child across the kneecap in a fit of rage that appears dis [...]
Did the Corporal Receive Consent to Enter the Hotel Room … Or was the Cocaine and Heroin Fruits of the Poisonous Tree?
Mr. Smith did not provide any form of consent for the corporal to enter the roo [...]
Can Two Persons Simultaneously Constructively Possess Contraband in a House?
[T]he fact that there were two people who shared the bedroom where the drugs we [...]
Can a Naked Male Constructively Possess Cocaine, Fentanyl, Heroin and a Glock?
Viewing this evidence in favor of the State as we are required to do, there is [...]
Is Detaining a Car with Two Methed Out Occupants Stopped Behind a Guardrail, With Fictitious Tags for Seven Minutes an Unreasonable Amount of Time?
The record is replete with facts supporting at least nine issues the officers w [...]
Whom Should be Believed? A Defense Witness Not at the Scene or Two Troopers Who WERE at Scene?
The jury occupied the primary position for weighing evidence, and the troopers’ [...]
The Seventh District Appellate Court Holds that a Firearm Laying Under a Log Next to a Residential Area is Not a Danger
We hold that the public safety exception, as analyzed above, did not apply beca [...]
A Deputy Feels a Baggie in a Suspect’s Pants Pocket During a Lawful Pat Down and asks “Is this dope … it feels like dope”? … Was this Question asked in Violation of Miranda?
Under the totality of the circumstances, Mr. Anderson would not yet have consid [...]
Was Terrell’s Coming Out of the Closet Enough to Sustain His Felony Conviction?
From the totality of these circumstances, it is reasonable for the trier of fac [...]