No. 22-1157

Craig Roper v. De'On Crane, et al.

Lower Court: Fifth Circuit
Docketed: 2023-05-30
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)
Tags: 4th-amendment civil-rights deadly-force excessive-force objective-reasonableness officer-safety police-conduct police-intervention qualified-immunity use-of-force vehicle-stop
Key Terms:
FourthAmendment CriminalProcedure JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2023-10-27 (distributed 2 times)
Related Cases: 22-1151 (Vide)
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Whether an objective police officer could have believed it reasonable to shoot a person who had warrants for his arrest, had locked the doors and raised the windows of his vehicle, had verbally and physically refused to comply with police commands to turn off and exit his vehicle, while the person was in the driver's seat of his vehicle revving the vehicle's engine and spinning the vehicles tires and one officer was partially inside the vehicle close to an open door, when other officers were nearby outside the vehicle.

2. If so, whether it would have been obvious to every objective police officer on February 1, 2017, that the driver posed no serious threat to life that warranted shooting the driver to stop a threat of harm.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether an objective police officer could have believed it reasonable to shoot a person who had warrants for his arrest, had locked the doors and raised the windows of his vehicle, had verbally and physically refused to comply with police commands to turn off and exit his vehicle, while the person was in the driver's seat of his vehicle revving the vehicle's engine and spinning the vehicles tires and one officer was partially inside the vehicle close to an open door, when other officers were nearby outside the vehicle

Docket Entries

2023-11-14
Application (23A217) denied by Justice Alito.
2023-10-30
Petition DENIED.
2023-10-04
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/27/2023.
2023-09-29
2023-09-19
Reply of applicant Craig Roper filed.
2023-09-14
Response to application from respondents De'On Crane, et al. filed.
2023-09-07
Response to application (23A217) requested by Justice Alito, due by 5 p.m. (EDT), Thursday, September 14, 2023.
2023-09-01
Application (23A217) for a stay, submitted to Justice Alito.
2023-07-21
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including September 18, 2023, for all respondents.
2023-07-20
Motion to extend the time to file a response from August 18, 2023 to September 18, 2023, submitted to The Clerk.
2023-07-19
Response Requested. (Due August 18, 2023)
2023-07-05
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/26/2023.
2023-06-29
Waiver of right of respondent De'on Crane, et al. to respond filed.
2023-05-25
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 29, 2023)

Attorneys

Craig Roper
James T. Jeffrey Jr. — Petitioner
De'on Crane, et al.
Kelsi Brown CorkranInstitute for Constitutional Advocacy & Protection, Respondent
Shelby Jean WhiteDurham, Pittard & Spalding, LLP, Respondent
Texas Municipal League Intergovernmental Risk Pool, et al.
Laura Dahl O'LearyFanning Harper Martinson Brandt & Kutchin, PC, Amicus