No. 20-5822

Eric Terrell Spears v. South Carolina

Lower Court: South Carolina
Docketed: 2020-09-28
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement-bias police-brutality police-interaction race racial-profiling seizure seizure-doctrine
Key Terms:
FourthAmendment CriminalProcedure Immigration Privacy JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2020-11-13
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a court must take into account a Black person's race when determining whether they are seized under the Fourth Amendment

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED ) Because of centuries of at the hands of the police, must a court take into account a Black person’s race when determining whether they are seized under the Fourth Amendment? i

Docket Entries

2020-11-16
Petition DENIED.
2020-10-29
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/13/2020.
2020-10-15
Waiver of right of respondent State of South Carolina to respond filed.
2020-08-28
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due October 28, 2020)

Attorneys

Eric Spears
Robert Michael DudekSC Office of Appellate Defense, Petitioner
Robert Michael DudekSC Office of Appellate Defense, Petitioner
State of Scuth Carolina
David SpencerOffice of the Attorney General, State of South Carolina, Respondent
David SpencerOffice of the Attorney General, State of South Carolina, Respondent