No. 20-8160

Tamaran Edward Bontemps v. United States

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2021-05-28
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio
Key Terms:
FourthAmendment CriminalProcedure
Latest Conference: 2021-06-24
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a sweatshirt bulge alone gives an objectively reasonable and particularized suspicion to stop a person under Terry v. Ohio

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED Police seized Mr. Bontemps, a young Black man, when he was walking on a sidewalk with three other young Black men. The police had received no background reports of any criminal activity. The officer stopped Mr. Bontemps midafternoon and in a general mixed area. The reasonable suspicion standard of Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1, 16 (1968), requires the police to have had an objective and particularized basis to believe that Bontemps had committed or was about to commit a crime. Does a sweatshirt bulge alone give an objectively reasonable and particularized suspicion to stop Bontemps? i

Docket Entries

2021-06-28
Petition DENIED.
2021-06-09
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/24/2021.
2021-06-03
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2021-05-24
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due June 28, 2021)

Attorneys

Tamaran Bontemps
Ann Catherine McClintockFederal Defender's Office, Petitioner
Ann Catherine McClintockFederal Defender's Office, Petitioner
United States
Elizabeth B. PrelogarActing Solicitor General, Respondent
Elizabeth B. PrelogarActing Solicitor General, Respondent