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The "ankle monitor" line is from Beautiful Struggle, not the Norfolk judge

verifiedchecked v3.10

The phrase is a verbatim quote from Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle v. Baltimore Police Dep't, 2 F.4th 330, 341-42 (4th Cir. 2021), invoked in the Schmidt appellate briefing on both sides. Judge Davis's opinion discusses Beautiful Struggle at length but does not coin the phrase.

How we know: Resolved v3.8, reconfirmed against the opinion in v3.10.

Source chain

  1. 01Schmidt, Doc. 191primarydocument (PDF)
  2. 02Schmidt appellate briefsprimarylink being reconstructed

Tracked case: Schmidt v. Norfolk

What changed on this claim

Machine-readable: /api/v1/claims/ankle-monitor-origin.json