Second Circuit Cites Professor Chin's Article on Racial Profiling

Professor Gabriel “Jack” Chin was cited in a concurring en banc decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in United States v. Weaver.

The court reversed the denial of a motion to suppress a firearm found during a frisk, following a traffic stop, because Syracuse, N.Y. officers lacked objective reasons to believe the defendant was armed and dangerous.

The Second Circuit cited Chin’s 2015 George Washington Law Review article with Charles  Vernon, “Reasonable but Unconstitutional: Racial Profiling and the Radical Objectivitiy of Whren v. United States.”

Gabriel "Jack" Chin is Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law and holder of the Edward L. Barrett, Jr. Endowed Chair at UC Davis School of Law.  He is a prolific and much-cited criminal and immigration law scholar whose work has addressed many of the most pressing social issues of our time.