Legal Opinion
Nicole Schneyder v. Gina Smith
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided July 29, 2011No. 10-2367PublishedCited by 285 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SMITH, Circuit Judge.
The Fourth Amendment guarantees the right of the people to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures. This case is about a seizure and presents questions of whether and how the Constitution’s guarantee applies in the case of a material witness who was jailed for weeks on end, even though the date of the trial in which she was to testify had been pushed back several months. We hold that the Fourth Amendment applies to such a detention, and that it requires a prosecutor responsible for such a detention to inform the judge who ordered the witness’s…
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