No. 18-5584

Lawrence L. Thompson v. Pete Copeland, et al.

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2018-08-14
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Relisted (2)IFP
Tags: 4th-amendment 8th-amendment arrest-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force failure-to-supervise fourth-amendment qualified-immunity search-and-seizure
Key Terms:
FourthAmendment
Latest Conference: 2019-02-15 (distributed 2 times)
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether Deputy Copeland's arrest of Mr. Thompson was unconstitutional and warranted the denial of qualified immunity

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED ; . Whether Deputy Copeland; arrest of Mr. Thompson in (2011). Nine years after Robinson v. Solano cty., 248 F. 3d 1007(9th Cir. 2002) "was unconstitutional regarding warranted the denied of qualified , immunity for Copeland's conduct purposes. And Sandoval v. Las Vegas Metro Police Dept's, 756 F. 3d 1154, 1165(9th Cir. 2014). The panel majority's analysis contridicts this rule by pointing : to minor factual differences that have no bearing on Robinson's application to this case. See Supra 12-15. Whether the panel majority's misapplication of Robinson also i constitutes a Fourth Amendment violation; where Deputy Copeland used unconstitutionally excessive force, and therefore whether qualified immunity should not be available to officers who point guns at suspects under sinilar circumstances; and whether grant Deputy Copeland qualified immunity for unholstering his weapon, and pointed it at Mr. Thompson's head, and threatened to kill him if he made a wrong move, constitutes an Eighth Amendment violation. : Whether the search was motivated soley by investigory intent, a relevant question is: but for his investigory intent, would Copeland have conducted the purported inventory search. : Did the District Court err when it dismissed Thompson's Loe claim. -Vil,

Docket Entries

2019-02-19
Rehearing DENIED.
2019-01-09
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/15/2019.
2018-11-08
Petition for Rehearing filed.
2018-10-15
Petition DENIED.
2018-09-27
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/12/2018.
2018-09-12
Brief of respondents Pete Copeland, et al. in opposition filed.
2018-06-28
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due September 13, 2018)

Attorneys

Lawrence L. Thompson
Lawrence L. Thompson — Petitioner
Pete Copeland, et al.
Endel Rohe KoldeKing County Prosecuting Attorney's Office, Respondent