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The Curious Case of Roxanne Torres

Advisory Opinions

The Dispatch

News, Government, Politics

4.74K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2021

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

On today’s podcast, our hosts discuss the Supreme Court’s March 25 ruling in Torres v. Madrid, a Fourth Amendment case involving a failed attempt by police officers to restrain suspect Roxanne Torres using physical force. “She’s claiming that they violated her Fourth Amendment rights by unreasonably seizing her,” Sarah explains. “And the question becomes: Can you seize someone if they got away?” After a deep dive into Fourth Amendment jurisprudence, Sarah and David talk about the legal history surrounding hate crimes and the constitutionality of D.C. statehood. They end the episode with some career advice for their aspiring lawyer listeners. Show Notes: -Caniglia v. Strom, Torres v. Madrid, Terry v. Ohio, R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul, Wisconsin v. Mitchell -“Supreme Court agrees to hear first abortion case with 6-3 conservative majority” by Alice Miranda Ollstein in Politico. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You ready?

0:02.0

I was born ready.

0:04.0

Welcome to the advisory opinion podcast.

0:22.0

This is David French with Sarah Isger.

0:25.0

We've got supreme court stuff to talk about today.

0:30.0

We have a discussion of hate crimes and hate speech that we've kind of punted for a few podcast episodes.

0:40.0

But the time has come, the time has come to deal with it.

0:42.0

We keep getting questions about this.

0:44.0

We're going to talk about it.

0:46.0

We're going to spend between 17 and 19 seconds more on DC statehood.

0:51.0

But it's going to be a really good 17 to 19 seconds.

0:55.0

And we're going to talk about a little bit of a legal career advice at the end for all of our aspiring lawyer listeners and all those who are law curious.

1:06.0

But Sarah, let's start with the supreme court of the United States.

1:13.0

We have an opinion in a case that we have talked about before.

1:17.0

And we also have a really interesting another case.

1:25.0

The case is called caniglia.

1:26.0

I unfortunately was calling it colligula behind its back.

1:30.0

But now that we're going to talk about the case to its face, I think I have to say it correctly, which appears to be caniglia versus strong.

1:37.0

Yes.

1:38.0

Yes.

1:39.0

But let's start with torres, torres.

1:47.0

This was a case we've talked about before.

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