Trevelle J. Taylor v. Nebraska
FourthAmendment CriminalProcedure JusticiabilityDoctri
Whether a person's mere proximity to others independently suspected of criminal activity, without more, gives rise to probable cause to search that person
QUESTION(S) PRESENTED Whether a persons mere proximity to others independently suspected of criminal activity, withoutmore, give rise to probable cause to search that person. . Whether a persons unprovoked flight upon seeing officers down a residen-. tial street give rise, without more, related to facts of criminal activity provocation to arrest that person. Whether an arresting officers actions are still deemed legal in light : of the only witness to the crime testifying. under oath he never witnessed the crime and never told arresting officers a crime did infact occur by the individual ‘being arrested. : Whether in a criminal case the accused has the right to confront and cross-examine the witnesses against him. Whether the State wasalterted sufficiently to a confrontation clause issue by introducing hearsay statements of Joseph Copelands son whom neither testified nor appeared at trial and relied upon those statements as evidence of the. petitioners guilt. . :