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The subject of today’s article – vehicle inventory searches – is a subject area we have covered before. However, the question we look at in this case, United States vs. Garay[i], is whether the cell phone seized during the inventory […]

This week we look at a traffic stop case, United States v. Gurule1, that touches on a number of issues – requiring passengers to exit the vehicle during the stop, consent to search, and frisking the passenger during a consent

Recently, we touched on a politically charged area – an ICE warrant execution at a manufacturing plant where over 100 employees were detained and prosecuted for illegally entering the country.  Today we touch on another “third-rail” so to speak –

Within the Daigle Law Group Policy Center policies concerning non-deadly force related to impact weapons, we have looked at a number of issues that you need to keep in mind when applying this force option.  Each non-deadly force option comes with its own set of conditions, needs for medical

Second Circuit United States v. Wallace, 937 F.3d 130(2d Cir. 2019) Three New York City police officers were traveling in a patrol car when, at approximately 7:20 p.m., they saw a defective brake light on the vehicle in front of

On a number of occasions, we have discussed cases involving an officer’s liability where the officer drafts an affidavit or arrest report that contains untruthful information or fails to disclose exculpatory information learned during the course of the investigation.  Today’s case – McDonough

DLG first ran this article in September of 2015 to address an issue that was causing a legal concern across the Country and has been the most read article since that time.  Interestingly, even after four years the question still

Craig E. Ferrell Jr., Deputy Director/General Counsel (Ret.), Houston Police Department, and Assistant Professor of Law and Criminal Justice, Houston Baptist University The U.S. Supreme Court’s October 2018 through June 2019 term began with only eight of the nine justices