Wesley Macneil Oliver
Amicus Curiae
Pro Se Wesley Macneil Oliver is an associate professor of law at Widener University, where he specializes in nineteenth and early twentieth century American criminal procedure. He is serving as his own counsel of record in this brief. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for the Petitioners as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on December 13, 2010. The lower court held that using the material-witness detention statute to hold those suspected of criminal wrongdoing clearly violates the Fourth Amendment rights of those suspect-witnesses to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. The history of material-witness detentions…
