Showing posts with label 4th Amendment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 4th Amendment. Show all posts
Saturday, February 9, 2019

Addendum to a botched drug raid

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Here is a link to the actual warrant for the botched drug raid. The article states that the warrant had been uplifted to Scribd, but when...
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Friday, February 8, 2019

Anatomy of a botched drug raid

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Last month five officers from the Houston Police Department were injured - four were shot - in a drug raid gone incredibly wrong. At the tim...
Friday, July 6, 2018

Iowa takes exception to shrinking 4th Amendment

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Take that, SCOTUS! And with the stroke of a pen (or, more accurately, the tapping of a few keys), the Iowa Supreme Court decided it wasn...
Monday, June 4, 2018

The problem with a property-based Fourth Amendment analysis

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One fine day Ryan Collins went out riding a distinctive orange and black motorcycle. I'm going to assume that the weather was fine and t...
Monday, March 12, 2018

You're my home

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Steven Long was a janitor at CenturyLink Field in Seattle, home of the Seattle Seahawks. As befits many jobs in our society, this one didn...
Monday, February 6, 2017

The bankruptcy of ideas

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President Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch is a real throwback. Really a throwback. He is a self-described "ori...
Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Taking away freedom on the cheap

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One of our worst nightmares is being wrongly arrested by the police and getting lost in the criminal (in)justice system. Thanks to a cheap d...
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Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Why is two greater than four?

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Why are we so concerned about the possibility that the Second Amendment might be restricted by legislation but we show no concern when the N...
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Thursday, December 18, 2014

Killing the frog one degree at a time

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The other day I was leaving the Montgomery County Courthouse up in Conroe after court and noticed a state trooper behind me. As I turned ont...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Just looking for an excuse to affirm

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In 2012, Milton Kay was driving in Orange, Texas without wearing his seatbelt and without having a current registration sticker on his winds...
Thursday, July 10, 2014

Analyzing the law rather than justifying an outcome

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Francheska Jaganathan was motoring along Interstate 10 in Chambers County (just east of Houston) when she was stopped by a state trooper for...
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Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Court releases Obama's drone memo

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Thanks to the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, the infamous Obama administration "drone memo" is now public . The memo lays out the a...
Friday, May 16, 2014

McNeely strikes again

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The State urges that we balance the public and private interests that are implicated in serious DWI cases and find that Texas’s mandatory b...
Tuesday, April 29, 2014

What goes up must come down

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Now that the aerial search for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet has been called off, resources can now be turned toward finding the unmanne...
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Wednesday, April 23, 2014

SCOTUS has one more for the road

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Lorenzo and Jose Navarette were minding their own business driving a truck down the highway with 30 pounds of marijuana in the bed of the tr...
Monday, March 17, 2014

What's good for the goose ain't good for the gander

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Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California) was morally outraged when news broke that the CIA had been monitoring the work of Intelligence Commi...
Monday, March 3, 2014

Let's play cowboys and vampires

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March is a busy time in the Houston area. First there's the Livestock Show and Rodeo that opened this past weekend with the World Champi...
Monday, January 27, 2014

Passing along the costs of blood testing

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As if the costs associated with a DWI arrest aren't high enough, prosecutors with the Harris County District Attorney's Office are ...
Thursday, January 9, 2014

Invalidating the Fourth Amendment, Texas style

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In Missouri v. McNeely , the US Supreme Court held that the natural dissipation of alcohol in blood is not in and of itself an exigent circu...
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Tuesday, November 12, 2013

A (tiny) step in the right direction

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Former state district judge Ken Anderson, the man who prosecuted Michael Morton for a murder he didn't commit, entered into a plea barga...
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