NGUYEN v. PENNSYLVANIA

No. 17-3654.

906 F.3d 271 (2018)

Tam Thanh NGUYEN, Appellant, v. Commonwealth of PENNSYLVANIA; Jared Bromberg, Pennsylvania State Trooper.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Filed: October 10, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Earl D. Raynor, Jr. , 744 South Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147, Counsel for Appellant.

Josh Shapiro , Attorney General, J. Bart DeLone , Acting Chief Deputy Attorney General, Claudia M. Tesoro , Senior Deputy Attorney General, Office of Attorney General of Pennsylvania, 1600 Arch Street, Suite 300, Philadelphia, PA 19103, Counsel for Appellee.

Before: HARDIMAN, KRAUSE, and BIBAS, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

A claim that a search was unconstitutional accrues when the officer conducts the search, not when a court later declares it unconstitutional. So the statute of limitations runs from the time of the search, not the time of the court decision.

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