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Summary Of District Of Columbia Vs Wesby

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District of Columbia v. Wesby
583 U.S.___ (2018)
Procedural HISTORY
The district court said the police officers did not have the right to make an arrest because they were invited to someone and lacked evidence to prove that she didn’t have permission to be there. They said that the police had no knowledge of such. Party goers also had to know they were not supposed to be there. The court of appeals upheld both decisions of the district courts. It made it to the Court of Appeals because of writ of certiorari

Key Issues
If the police made false arrest?
Did the police have probable cause to make an arrest?
If they didn’t have probable cause to make the arrest do they have qualified immunity?

Facts of Case
A late-night party in the District of …show more content…

Wesby was a very interesting case, that was just recently decided. I agree with the judges that for one there was no lawful arrest made and but I strongly disagree that there was not probable cause to make an arrest and lastly, I agree that the officers do have qualified immunity in this case.

The officers made an unlawful arrest because they lacked evidence to charge the party goers with unlawful arrest. This is because the party goers did not know they were not supposed to be there at that time. The Court case states that Peaches was the supposed tenant of the house and gave the party goers permission to be there and that is why they were all there. But, the officers later learned that Peaches had no right to have a party there. This is because they contacted the actual homeowner. But, once officers did, the homeowner informed the officers he was in negotiations with Peaches about renting but noting was yet final. I think after learning this the officers should have charged Peaches with unlawful entry because she knew she didn’t have any rights to the home and had no right to invite others there. Officers should have charged her with 21 counts of unlawful entry because her actions caused the party goers to be there and trash the house. I feel that would have been enough probable cause to arrest her but not anyone else. The party goers should not have been arrested because how are the party goers supposed to know she wasn’t supposed to invite …show more content…

I do believe however that there was probable cause to make an arrest. As I stated earlier the house was trashed and the officers later learned that the party goers had no right to be there. They could have charged them with vandalism or destruction of property. Even though the party goers didn’t know they were not supposed to be there they could have been arrested for disorderly conduct as well. Their music was being played way to loud and was causing a community disturbance. There was also according to the case marijuana being used. I believe that the officers also could have charged the party goers with possession of marijuana and maybe could have done further investigation to see if any other crimes have been committed. The house was totally trashed and more than likely caused the homeowner to spend a large amount of money to fix, repair, or rebuild what very was destructed at the

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