Robert Banks, III v. United States
AdministrativeLaw FourthAmendment DueProcess FirstAmendment CriminalProcedure
Should Whren v. United States be overruled to protect against racial profiling and discrimination?
QUESTIONS PRESENTED FOR REVIEW 1. Should Whren v. United States, 517 U.S. 806 (1996), be overruled for permitting unconstitutional detentions of Black Americans and people-of-color for no reason, pretextual reasons or fabricated reasons and thereby facilitating racial profiling and discrimination in violation of the Fourth Amendment’s promise to protect all against unreasonable searches and seizures? 2. Did the Ninth Circuit’s opinion, which upheld the frisk, arrest and prolonged detention of Petitioner Banks absent reasonable suspicion or probable cause, violate this Court’s precedent in Rodriguez v. United States, 575 U.S. 348 (2015), and Knowles v. Iowa, 525 US. 113 (1998)? 3. Should this Court revisit Salinas v. United States, 522 U.S. 52 (1997), which reduced the quantum of evidence necessary to prove a conspiracy to commit crimes through a pattern of racketeering, rendering Title 18 U.S.C. §1962(d) overbroad, vague and therefore susceptible to arbitrary enforcement as evidenced by the discriminatory application of RICO to people of color? Prefix.