No. 18-8650

Ollisha Nicole Easley v. United States

Lower Court: Tenth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-04-01
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: 4th-amendment civil-rights consensual-search due-process fourth-amendment interrogation probable-cause race racial-profiling reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard search search-and-seizure
Key Terms:
FourthAmendment CriminalProcedure HabeasCorpus WageAndHour Privacy JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2019-04-26
Question Presented (AI Summary)

When examining the totality of the objective circumstances, is a bus passenger's race a factor in understanding how a reasonable person in her position would not decline an official search request or turn away from interrogation, especially when she is the only one of her race on the bus and has not been informed she may refuse to interact?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

Question Presented For Review When examining the totality of the objective circumstances, is a bus passenger’s race a factor in understanding how a reasonable person in her position would not decline an official search request or turn away from interrogation, especially when she is the only one of her race on the bus and has not been informed she may refuse to interact? 1

Docket Entries

2019-04-29
Petition DENIED.
2019-04-11
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/26/2019.
2019-04-09
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2018-03-26
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due May 1, 2019)

Attorneys

Ollisha Nicole Easley
Margaret Ann KatzeFederal Public Defender, Petitioner
Margaret Ann KatzeFederal Public Defender, Petitioner
United States
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent