No. 21-7416

Trevor Dawson Ewers v. Virginia

Lower Court: Virginia
Docketed: 2022-03-18
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: civil-rights concerted-action constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment pretextual-stop reasonable-suspicion seizure traffic-stop
Key Terms:
FourthAmendment DueProcess CriminalProcedure
Latest Conference: 2022-04-29
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Where officers work together in concerted action to 'produce' reasonable suspicion when there is none to affect a traffic stop with the sole purpose of removing a backseat passenger from the vehicle, under what circumstances does such stop and seizure violate the Fourth Amendment Rights (as applied through the Fourteenth Amendment) of the backseat passenger?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED Where officers work together in concerted action to “produce” reasonable suspicion when there is none to affect a traffic stop with the sole purpose of removing a backseat passenger from the vehicle, under what circumstances does such stop and seizure violate the Fourth Amendment Rights (as applied through the Fourteenth Amendment) of the backseat passenger? 2

Docket Entries

2022-05-02
Petition DENIED.
2022-04-14
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/29/2022.
2022-04-13
Waiver of right of respondent Virginia to respond filed.
2022-01-25
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 18, 2022)
2021-12-01
Application (21A187) granted by The Chief Justice extending the time to file until January 28, 2022.
2021-11-18
Application (21A187) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from November 29, 2021 to January 28, 2022, submitted to The Chief Justice.

Attorneys

Trevor Ewers
Matthew Lind PackPack Law Group/ M. Pack Law, PLLC, Petitioner
Matthew Lind PackPack Law Group/ M. Pack Law, PLLC, Petitioner
Virginia
Andrew Nathan FergusonOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent
Andrew Nathan FergusonOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent