Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice.
New cert petition: Starting in 2011, then-16-year-old Hamdi Mohamud spent over two years in prison on bogus charges fabricated by a St. Paul police officer. Which is a bang-on Fourth Amendment violation, but the Eighth Circuit has twice held Hamdi has no cause of action because the officer (still employed and making six figures) was cross-deputized onto a federal task force. IJ is asking the Supreme Court to resolve some circuit splits and let the case go forward.
New on the Short Circuit podcast: When the gov't takes your long walk on the beach.
