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Criminal Procedure Fall 2022
Resource 6 . 3
22 minutes

District of Columbia v. Wesby (2018)

138 S.Ct. 577

C.E. Field

PARTY PEOPLE

In an extraordinarily entertaining opinion by Justice Clarence Thomas, the court concludes that

yes, the officers did have probable cause to arrest 21 party people who were “renting a house from Peaches for a bachelor party.”

The arrests were for unlawful entry; partiers were charged with disorderly conduct, but the charges were eventually dropped. Wesby is a civil rights case, but provides the most detailed, accessible totality of the circumstances analysis this prof knows of.

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