David Leon Riley Case Study

Officer Nolan and Harvey then proceeded to follow Mr.Wardlow until they cornered him on the street. Officer Nolan then performed a Terry stop that included a pat down and a search of his bag. Sam’s bag was found with a .38-caliber handgun with 5 live ammunition rounds. Sam Wardlow was then arrested and later convicted of unlawful use of a weapon by a felon. The conviction of Sam Wardlow’s illegal search was unjustified and cruel to his rights as a citizen.

So, the cops went after him and did a frisk where they found a gun with five live bullets in it. He (Sam) was then charged with unlawful use of a weapon and unlawful use of a weapon by a felon, by the Cook County Circuit Court. Sam Wardlow then appealed his case to the Illinois Appellate Court, which then they sent it to the Illinois Supreme Court. Where both of the courts were in favor of Sam, they believed there

David Leon Riley, a gangster who is in the Lincoln Park Gang in San Diego, CA was involved in a rival gang shooting. The rival of Riley’s gang shot at the Lincoln Park Gang and then got into Riley’s vehicle, stole it, and drove off. Riley had his cell phone in his possession when he was apprehended. So a detective analyzed the videos and photographs of Riley making gang signs and other gang indicia that were stored on the phone to verify whether Riley was gang affiliated. On August 22, 2009, the police pulled Riley over which he was driving a different car which later they found out that he was driving on expired license registration tags.

The son of The Real Housewives of Orange County star Lauri Peterson has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. Lauri was on the show in the past and fans still like to keep up with what she is up to now. LA Times shared that Lauri 's son Joshua Waring is now behind bars. This is all from a shooting in Costa Mesa. The arrest went down after a police chase in Santa Ana.

Case Analysis In the court case, Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole v. Scott, 524 US. 357 (1998), the defendant was not allowed to obtain any weapons while on parole. In 1983, Scott pleaded ‘nolo contendere’, which means that he doesn’t wish to contend or agree to the guilty charge, to third degree murder. He was sentenced ten to twenty years to prison.

Defensive linemen Ethan Westbrooks was arrested after a highway patrol officer found a stolen gun in his vehicle. He was speeding in interstate 5 near Bakersfield California when a highway patrol officer stopped him and asked for his license and registration. Westbrook was searching for his registration and the officer spotted an illegal gun in the glove department. He was arrested on Friday on suspicion of possessing a loaded firearm, possessing a stolen firearm and possessing a high-capacity magazine. The gun was reported stolen back in 2009 in Sacramento, California with a clip that holds 13 rounds.

The Case The case involved the shooting of five friends in a house during an armed robbery. One of the witnesses Larry Boatner stated that he was at a friend’s house shortly after Juan Smith and two other people entered the house. They demanded money and drugs which resulted in the shooting that left five of Larry’s friends dead. During the trial Boatner identified Smith as one of the gunmen who entered the house where the shooting took place.

While searching her purse, he found cigarettes and paper to roll cigarettes. He had the thought that T.L.O. was also using marijuana. He kept searching her purse and found a wad of money, drug paraphernalia, a paper with other students’ names on it, plus another paper that looked as if T.L.O. was dealing marijuana. The administrator called the police, who called the girl’s mom. Her mom took her to the police station, where she confessed to selling marijuana.(United States Courts)

Horn’s lawsuit also alleges the “General Rifling Characteristics” reports done at the time to determine what type of gun was used were altered to align with witness testimony for a stronger case against Horn. Stephenson conducted the reports but never disclosed them to Horn’s lawyer or provided them to the State’s Attorney’s Office, the suit alleges. The prosecutor realized about a year later as he was preparing for trial in early 2000 that he had a problem: "His star witness said the murder weapon was a Beretta. But his forensic examiner's report did not list a Beretta as even a possible murder weapon". So the prosecutor called Stephenson "shortly before the start of jury selection," and he asked, "whether it was possible the murder weapon could have been a Beretta.

With the U.S. Supreme Court the ruling was unanimous with a 9-0 vote, the justices upheld the law. Below I have placed an insert from this

Upon searching Riley’s name in their database, officers discovered that Riley had been driving on a suspended license, and put him under arrest (Oyez, “Riley v. California”). The article from Oyez also says that the Police’s standard protocol was to search the car for drugs, firearms, or any suspicious items before impounding the car. When this occurred, two guns were found. After finding this information the police also examined Riley’s cellphone before obtaining a proper warrant; they found pictures of Riley flashing gang signs, texts, all of which were subsequently used to link Riley to an attempted homicide twenty days prior to the arrest, with this evidence Riley was charged with an unassociated murder on August 2nd. (EPIC,

Key Facts: On December 18, 1992, two brothers were shot and killed in their Houston home after throwing a party the previous night. Police obtained six shotgun shells from the site and received a description of a potential suspect from a local neighbor. The investigation led the police to Salinas, who willingly agreed to relinquish his shotgun for ballistics testing and to accompany police for further questioning. The interview lasted approximately one hour, where both parties were later in agreement that Salinas was not detained nor was he read Miranda warnings. Salinas answered most questions during the interview, but fell silent when asked if “his shotgun ‘would match the shells recovered at the scene of the murder.’”

The ruling was later change by the review panel of judges in the Supreme Court, who found out that the law was

Riley v. California 573 U.S. ____ (2014) By: Jonathan Feltis December 16, 2015 Dr. Bobby Lomeli, AJ12 In 2014, the United States Supreme Court reviewed the case of Riley v. California and a very similar case United States v. Wurie, and decided on June 25, 2014, whether or not the data of a cell phone (smart phone) can be searched incident to arrest without a warrant. Before Riley v. California was decided, information about searching the data of cell phones was vague. There were differing rulings by state and federal courts whether or not police can search a cell phones digital contents without a warrant.

In September of 1998, Houston police received a report of a disturbance called in by a resident in living in the same private residence as the accused, John Lawrence. To be exact the Houston police were responding to “a reported weapons disturbance in a private residence” (Oyez, 2018) occurring the Lawrence residence. When the police arrived to the scene they proceeded