"According to the Wyoming Highway Patrol, Rossmeyer was headed east on Highway 28 in Sweetwater County behind a Ford pickup truck pulling a 2-axle camper trailer. [read post]

Broad, No. 05-8094, 05-8102 In an action against defendants-Wyoming highway patrol officers and their supervisor claiming failure to train and excessive force under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 and state negligence law, summary judgment for defendants on the section 1983 claims is reversed where defendants were not entitled to qualified immunity as: 1) there was evidence that for three minutes troopers subjected decedent to force that they knew was unnecessary to restrain him… [read post]

§ 841(a)(1) and (b)(1)(B).HELD:(1) Where highway patrol officer's suspicion that new and neatly packed cardboard boxes on seat of car contained drugs, but that suspicion was based on single anecdote involving drug stop made by another officer, officer's suspicion was wholly subjective and therefore irrelevant to reasonable suspicion determination. [read post]