Trevelle J. Taylor v. Nebraska
FourthAmendment CriminalProcedure JusticiabilityDoctri
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.
Whether a person's mere proximity to others independently suspected of criminal activity, without more, gives rise to probable cause to search that person