No. 18-7256
Amin De Castro v. United States
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement-interaction police-encounter police-seizure probable-cause reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard seizure terry-stop
Key Terms:
FourthAmendment CriminalProcedure Privacy JusticiabilityDoctri
FourthAmendment CriminalProcedure Privacy JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference:
2019-02-15
Question Presented (AI Summary)
whether a reasonable person would feel free to refuse a police officer's polite request to take his hands out of his pockets
Question Presented (OCR Extract)
QUESTION PRESENTED A police officer “seizes” a person under the Fourth Amendment if he makes a request that a reasonable person would not feel free to refuse, and the person then complies. See California v. Hodari D., 499 U.S. 621, 627-628 (1991). The question in this case is whether a reasonable person would feel free to refuse a police officer’s polite request to take his hands out of his pockets. i
Docket Entries
2019-02-19
Petition DENIED.
2019-01-24
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/15/2019.
2019-01-16
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2019-01-02
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due February 6, 2019)
Attorneys
Amin De Castro
Robert Epstein — Def. Assoc. of Phila. Fed. Ct., Petitioner
Robert Epstein — Def. Assoc. of Phila. Fed. Ct., Petitioner
United States
Noel J. Francisco — Solicitor General, Respondent
Noel J. Francisco — Solicitor General, Respondent