Showing posts with label probable cause. Show all posts
Showing posts with label probable cause. Show all posts
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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Thursday, August 18, 2011

Excuses, excuses

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When an officer has a hunch someone might be just a bit tipsy behind the wheel and he can't find a legal basis for the stop he tends to ...
Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Shooting oneself in the foot

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Over the weekend, my wife and I drove up to Huntsville State Park to do some hiking for our anniversary. Along the way we stopped in Willis ...
Saturday, July 10, 2010

Legislating away your reasonable expectation of privacy

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The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be...
Monday, May 17, 2010

Roadblocks down in the bayou

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The Sheriff over in Cameron Parish, Louisiana decided to set himself up  a roadblock to catch all those pesky drunk drivers  in Grand Lake l...
Monday, January 4, 2010

Judge orders courtroom spectators to submit to drug tests

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Benjamin Marchet of South Carolina has filed suit in Federal Court in Tennessee alleging that Dickson County (TN) Judge Durwood Moore ordere...
Tuesday, October 20, 2009

US Supreme Court says anonymous tips are not enough to justify a DWI stop

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The United States Supreme Court voted 4-3 to deny review in Virginia v. Harris , a DWI case in which the Virginia State Supreme Court held t...
Thursday, October 1, 2009

What part of no probable cause doesn't she get?

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Probable cause is the level of proof needed to support an arrest decision. It is more than reasonable suspicion, but far less than a prepond...
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Probable cause? Who needs probable cause?

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Yesterday the State of Texas came one step closer to ending a 15-year old ban on DWI checkpoints with the passage of S.B. 298 which would a...
Friday, January 23, 2009

A little professional courtesy?

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State District Judge Elizabeth Berry scored a victory in Johnson County (Texas), when the trial court ruled that blood samples taken after ...
Tuesday, August 12, 2008

CRU and the assault on the Constitution

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HPD's Crime Reduction Unit (CRU) is making the city safe from the likes of hardened criminals like jaywalkers and bicyclists. It's ...