Legal Opinion
Pitts v. District of Columbia
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided March 31, 2016No. Civil Action No. 14-cv-1319 (TSC)PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
TANYA S. CHUTEAN, United States District Judge
In this civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, Patrice Pitts and her son Michael Pitts challenge the Metropolitan Police Department’s practice of obtaining home search warrants based on nothing more than street arrests for gun possession and an officer’s purported “training and experience” regarding the habits and tendencies of gun possessors. Plaintiffs allege that twelve named MPD officers and an unspecified number of “John Doe” MPD officers (collectively, the “MPD Officer Defendants”) violated Plaintiffs’ constitutional…
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