U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Joseph Watson v. Patrick Pearson
Panel
The judges who heard this appeal.
- Senior Judge Ronald Lee Gilman
- Judge Raymond M. Kethledge
Case history
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June 28, 2019decided Decision issued in Joseph Watson v. Patrick Pearson
Opinions and writings
RECOMMENDED FOR FULL-TEXT PUBLICATION Pursuant to Sixth Circuit I.O.P. 32.1(b) File Name: 19a0138p.06 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT JOSEPH D. WATSON, ┐ Plaintiff-Appellant, │ │…
RONALD LEE GILMAN, Circuit Judge. *509Joseph D. Watson filed an action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that law-enforcement officers violated his Fourth Amendment rights by engaging in a warrantless search of the curtilage su…
KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judge, dissenting. I see nothing in the relevant facts or law that would have made obvious to the officers *514that Watson had a privacy interest in the house. Watson had just told the officers that he neither owned nor lived there. The majority asserts that "[a]t the very least, Watson communicated that he was an overnight…