Police officers can make mistakes, which, for better or worse, the U.S. Supreme Court has often seen fit to forgive. Police, for instance, can make mistakes of fact when assessing whether circumstances justify the seizure of an individual or search of a residence; they can even be mistaken about the identity of those they arrest. This essay examines yet another, arguably more significant context where police mistakes are forgiven: when they seize a person based on their misunderstanding of what a law prohibits
The U.S. Supreme Court deserves some of the blame for the problem of police misconduct, including of...
The legal and social issues that have emerged out of the doctrine that people in America have a righ...
The Supreme Court holds that warrantless searches and seizures are presumptively unreasonable. Nonet...
Police officers can make mistakes, which, for better or worse, the U.S. Supreme Court has often seen...
This Article addresses something that most Americans would consider a constitutional impossibility: ...
The United States Supreme Court’s understanding of police practices plays a significant role in the ...
Jon Gould and Stephen Mastrofski document astonishingly high rates of unconstitutional police search...
The Supreme Court has been whittling away at the Fourth Amendment for decades. The Court\u27s 2014 r...
The Supreme Court has cast judicial warrants as the Fourth Amendment gold standard for regulating po...
Much of our Fourth Amendment jurisprudence is premised upon a profound misunderstanding of the natur...
In the wake of repeated police shootings of unarmed Black men and women, police departments across t...
This Issue Brief summarizes some of the traditional mechanisms for holding police accountable for mi...
Compared to Fourth Amendment jurisprudence more generally, with its well-earned reputation for compl...
This article is the first in-depth examination of revocation of peace officer licenses for citizen a...
This article discusses the Supreme Court\u27s landmark 2001 decision Atwater v. City of Lago Vista, ...
The U.S. Supreme Court deserves some of the blame for the problem of police misconduct, including of...
The legal and social issues that have emerged out of the doctrine that people in America have a righ...
The Supreme Court holds that warrantless searches and seizures are presumptively unreasonable. Nonet...
Police officers can make mistakes, which, for better or worse, the U.S. Supreme Court has often seen...
This Article addresses something that most Americans would consider a constitutional impossibility: ...
The United States Supreme Court’s understanding of police practices plays a significant role in the ...
Jon Gould and Stephen Mastrofski document astonishingly high rates of unconstitutional police search...
The Supreme Court has been whittling away at the Fourth Amendment for decades. The Court\u27s 2014 r...
The Supreme Court has cast judicial warrants as the Fourth Amendment gold standard for regulating po...
Much of our Fourth Amendment jurisprudence is premised upon a profound misunderstanding of the natur...
In the wake of repeated police shootings of unarmed Black men and women, police departments across t...
This Issue Brief summarizes some of the traditional mechanisms for holding police accountable for mi...
Compared to Fourth Amendment jurisprudence more generally, with its well-earned reputation for compl...
This article is the first in-depth examination of revocation of peace officer licenses for citizen a...
This article discusses the Supreme Court\u27s landmark 2001 decision Atwater v. City of Lago Vista, ...
The U.S. Supreme Court deserves some of the blame for the problem of police misconduct, including of...
The legal and social issues that have emerged out of the doctrine that people in America have a righ...
The Supreme Court holds that warrantless searches and seizures are presumptively unreasonable. Nonet...