Legal Opinion
Pollard v. District of Columbia
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided June 9, 2016No. Civil Action No. 2012-1010PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
KETANJI BROWN JACKSON, United States District Judge
In, October of 2011, officers from the District of Columbia’s Metropolitan Police Department (“MPD”) arrested Kevin Witherspoon—a then-29-year-old D.C. resident with an intellectual disability and a phonological disorder—for his ' participation in what is known as a “buy/bust” drug operation. The undisputed facts establish that Witherspoon got into an unmarked police car with an undercover police officer, and then, at the officer’s prompting, directed the officer to two different locations, where he purchased marijuana and…
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3Cited by19 opinions
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