No. 18-7179

Trevelle J. Taylor v. Nebraska

Lower Court: Nebraska
Docketed: 2018-12-27
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: 4th-amendment arrest-standards civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search witness-testimony
Key Terms:
FourthAmendment CriminalProcedure JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2019-02-22
Question Presented (AI Summary)

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 Presented (OCR Extract)

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. . :

Docket Entries

2019-02-25
Petition DENIED.
2019-02-07
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/22/2019.
2018-12-03
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due January 28, 2019)

Attorneys

Trevelle J. Taylor
Trevelle J. Taylor — Petitioner
Trevelle J. Taylor — Petitioner