No. 21-5433
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: civil-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement mistake-of-law pretext pretext-stop reasonable-mistake traffic-stop vehicle-code vehicle-equipment
Key Terms:
FourthAmendment CriminalProcedure JusticiabilityDoctri
FourthAmendment CriminalProcedure JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference:
2021-09-27
Question Presented (from Petition)
1. Where police officers admitted that their equipment violation stop of the vehicle in which petitioner was a passenger was a pretext to conduct gang investigation and where they were mistaken as to the illegality of the vehicle equipment violation -- the mistaken belief that two license plate lights were required in California -- was their mistake unreasonable and should their admission of a pretextual motive bar a claim of good faith making the stop illegal under the Fourth Amendment?
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Where police officers admitted that their equipment violation stop of the vehicle in which petitioner was a passenger was a pretext to conduct gang investigation and where they were mistaken as to the illegality of the vehicle equipment violation
Docket Entries
2021-10-04
Petition DENIED.
2021-08-26
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/27/2021.
2021-08-20
Waiver of right of respondent State of California to respond filed.
2021-08-18
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due September 20, 2021)
Attorneys
Alex White
John A. Colucci — Law Offices of John A. Colucci, Petitioner
State of California
Michael Aaron Katz — Attorney General's Office, Respondent