Showing posts with label reasonable suspicion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reasonable suspicion. 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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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...
Thursday, July 21, 2011

Court holds that reasonable suspicion cannot be developed retroactively

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Can the police develop reasonable suspicion to make a traffic stop after the fact? When put that way, the obvious answer is no. If reasonabl...
Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Texas court lowers the standard for reasonable suspicion

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Over the years court have continually lowered the standard by which a police officer may intrude upon the liberty of an individual. A law en...
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Thursday, July 29, 2010

Judge's injunction doesn't address the motive behind Arizona's immigration law

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Judge Bolton's decision to enjoin the State of Arizona from enforcing provisions of SB1070 is a step in the right direction but it is ...
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...
Thursday, May 6, 2010

Add DWH to the Arizona penal code

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There is a new crime on the books in Arizona and it's called Driving While Hispanic. With the passage of SB 1070 , law enforcement offic...
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...
Monday, November 9, 2009

You might hold off on going through the car wash

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I was reading an offense report for a case down in South Texas the other day in which an ordinary traffic stop turned into an arrest for pos...
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...
Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Significant decisions by the Courts of Appeal, October 2008

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An officer need not observe a suspected intoxicated driver actually drive In a pair of decisions, the First Court of Appeals in Houston and ...
Thursday, September 11, 2008

Significant decisions by the Courts of Appeal, August 2008

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Honking your horn too loudly could give rise to reasonable suspicion In Rogers v. State  (No. 2-06-345-CR), the Fort Worth Court of Appeals ...