No. 18-7179

Trevelle J. Taylor v. Nebraska

Lower Court: Nebraska
Docketed: 2018-12-27
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: 4th-amendment arrest-standards civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search witness-testimony
Key Terms:
FourthAmendment CriminalProcedure JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2019-02-22
Question Presented (from Petition)

Whether a persons mere proximity to others independently suspected of criminal activity, withoutmore, give rise to probable cause to search that person.

Whether a persons unprovoked flight upon seeing officers down a residential street give rise, without more, related to facts of criminal activity provocation to arrest that person.

Whether an arresting officers actions are still deemed legal in light of the only witness to the crime testifying under oath he never witnessed the crime and never told arresting officers a crime did infact occur by the individual being arrested.

Whether in a criminal case the accused has the right to confront and cross-examine the witnesses against him.

Whether the State was alterted sufidently to a confrontation clause issue by introducing hearsay statements of Joseph Copelands son whom neither testified nor appeared at trial and relied upon those statements as evidence of the petitioners guilt.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a person's mere proximity to others independently suspected of criminal activity, without more, gives rise to probable cause to search that person

Docket Entries

2019-02-25
Petition DENIED.
2019-02-07
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/22/2019.
2018-12-03
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due January 28, 2019)

Attorneys

Trevelle J. Taylor
Trevelle J. Taylor — Petitioner