Jennifer Johnson v. Joe Phillips

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• concluding that, in 2006, no reasonable officer would have believed that probable cause existed to search trunk after valid arrest where officer had no suspicion particular to trunk
• holding that, even though a building commissioner and Auxiliary Reserve Police Officer” “lacked authority under state law to conduct a traffic stop or arrest, that fact that did not establish that his conduct violated the Fourth Amendment”
• denying qualified immunity to an officer with “no arguable authority” to conduct a search
• analyzing a city ordinance to determine whether an Auxiliary Reserve Police Officer had the power -15- to arrest or search incident to arrest and holding that because he did not, he was not entitled to qualified immunity
• “It was well-known at the time of the incident that an investigatory stop is valid only if police officers have a reasonable and articulable suspicion that criminal activity may be afoot.”
• “[I]t [is] clearly established in this circuit that the commis- sion of a sexual assault by a government official acting under color of law constitutes a violation of due process that shocks the conscience.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).