Frank Napolitano, et al. v. Laurence Washington

On May 16, 2016, members of the East Hartford Police Department (the “EHPD”) began investigating the murder of Marshall Wiggins. On May 17, 2016, Laurence Washington called the EHPD and agreed to provide a sworn statement regarding his knowledge of Mr. Wiggins’ murder. As part of their investigation, officers from the EHPD discovered that three individuals were in the car when Mr. Wiggins was murdered: Mr. Wiggins, Laurence Washington, and Michael Gaston. Washington protested his innocence in his sworn written statement and indicated that Mr. Gaston had murdered Mr. Wiggins. The questions presented are: 1. Whether the Court of Appeals improperly denied qualified immunity by requiring an officer to disclose his subjective intent and state of mind in a warrant application in direct contravention of this Court’s precedent in Devenpeck v. Alford, 543 U.S. 146, 153 (2004), which established that “an arresting officer’s state of mind (except for the facts that he knows) is irrelevant to the existence of probable cause” and that “[e]venhanded law enforcement is best achieved by the application of objective standards of conduct, rather than standards that