No. 18-6179

Mario Govan Emmanuel v. Territory of the Virgin Islands

Lower Court: Virgin Islands
Docketed: 2018-10-02
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: 4th-amendment bolo-flyer collective-knowledge collective-knowledge-doctrine fellow-officer-doctrine fourth-amendment officer-discretion reasonable-suspicion stop-and-frisk terry-stop terry-v-ohio united-states-v-hensley whiteley-v-warden
Key Terms:
FourthAmendment FirstAmendment DueProcess CriminalProcedure JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2018-11-30
Question Presented (from Petition)

Does the collective knowledge or fellow officer doctrine eliminate the need for the BOLO-flyer "to articulate facts supporting a reasonable suspicion that the wanted person has committed an offense," with the result that an officer who lacks reasonable suspicion may stop or frisk a citizen at will?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does the collective knowledge or fellow officer doctrine eliminate the need for the BOLO-flyer to articulate facts supporting a reasonable suspicion that the wanted person has committed an offense?

Docket Entries

2018-12-03
Petition DENIED.
2018-11-14
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/30/2018.
2018-09-11
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due November 1, 2018)
Petition

Attorneys

Mario Govan Emmanuel
Kele Chidi Onyejekwe — Office of the Territorial Public Defender, Petitioner