No. 20-825

Christopher Brewer v. Teresa Hooks, et al.

Lower Court: Eleventh Circuit
Docketed: 2020-12-18
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: 4th-amendment causal-connection fourth-amendment informant informant-testimony probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant section-1983
Latest Conference: 2021-02-19
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Whether probable cause or arguable probable cause exists to seek a search warrant where an officer relies upon an informant who turns himself in, admits commission of multiple including unreported/unsolved crimes, and whose information is partially corroborated;

2. Whether an officer retains qualified immunity when he takes the additional step of consulting with and relying upon the advice of an assistant district attorney that probable cause exists prior to seeking and securing a search warrant;

3. Whether the subject of a knock and announce search warrant raising a weapon at officers executing such a warrant breaks the causal connection between the allegedly flawed search warrant and damage claims including the death of a homeowner shot by officers who warned the subject homeowner to drop his weapon before firing.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether probable cause or arguable probable cause exists to seek a search warrant where an officer relies upon an informant who turns himself in, admits commission of multiple including unreported/ unsolved crimes, and whose information is partially corroborated

Docket Entries

2021-02-22
Petition DENIED.
2021-02-03
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/19/2021.
2020-12-01
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 19, 2021)

Attorneys

Christopher Brewer
Timothy J. Buckley IIIBuckley Christopher P.C., Petitioner