United States v. Roscoe B. Sargent

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• affirming dismissal of § 1983 claim and explaining that even assuming 8 the public defender provided inadequate representation, because he had “assumed his role as 9 counsel and ... had begun to perform ‘a lawyer's traditional functions,’ ... he was not a state 10 actor”
• also considering “whether the claim involves uncertain and contingent events that may not occur as anticipated or may not occur at all”
• “Where it is not facially evident 13 from the complaint that more than $75,000 is in controversy . . . .”
• officers had reasonable suspicion of danger in executing a search warrant at an apartment that they knew contained drugs and numerous knives when there was a five-second delay between the police announcement of their presence and the opening of the door
• explaining “ripeness” assesses standing at the beginning of the suit
• noting “small size of the apartment”

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