Showing posts with label search warrant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label search warrant. Show all posts
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...
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...
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 ...
Monday, July 22, 2013

No refusal isn't just for weekends anymore

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No longer must we wait for holidays and three-day weekends to celebrate the evisceration of the Fourth Amendment. Now, in Harris County, we ...
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Monday, April 29, 2013

High court says no to warrantless blood draws - or does it?

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Tyler McNeely was heading home from a local watering hole one evening when a police officer stopped him for speeding and crossing the center...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Drug dog day afternoon

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Joelis Jardines figured he was safe inside his own house. So long as no one knew what was going on behind the doors he had nothing to worry ...
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Friday, February 1, 2013

Time to change the model

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Our current Fourth Amendment jurisprudence is based upon what now must seem like a quaint concept - the reasonable expectation of privacy. I...
Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Worth the paper it's printed on

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A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be in...
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Friday, December 21, 2012

Time for the annual crackdown on the Fourth Amendment

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Once again it's that time of year when law enforcement agencies get together to celebrate the demise of the Fourth Amendment and crack ...
Wednesday, November 21, 2012

"A cell phone is not a pair of pants"

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Anthony Granville got in trouble at school one day. I don't know for what. But he found himself with his hands cuffed behind his back an...
Monday, July 23, 2012

Swearing on the telephone

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A few days ago Scott Greenfield over at Simple Justice   picked up on a piece written by Walter Olson decrying the use of a judge's gave...
Wednesday, February 29, 2012

It's only a misdemeanor

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The American prison population is roughly two million. That's more than the total number of inmates in all of Europe. But, as Loyola L...
Thursday, October 20, 2011

Isn't it ironic? (Don't you think?)

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Sgt. Roy Marquez of the Houston Police Department's Traffic Enforcement Division (the guys in charge of the DWI task force) found himsel...
Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Search warrants for dummies

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Maybe it's because they're lazy. Maybe it's because they can't be trusted to do it right by themselves. Whatever the reason ...
Friday, October 7, 2011

The volunteer army

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From: Bill Reed Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 11:31 AM To: Criss, Susan Subject: FW: Needing volunteers for Galveston County "No-Refus...
Thursday, October 6, 2011

Filling in the blanks

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June 25, 2008   "The Galveston County Criminal District Attorney's Office is coordinating another no-refusal weekend for Friday ...
Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Should I bring a pen along?

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Last August I wrote about documents I received through an open records request for documents related to No Refusal Weekends in Harris County...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Twisting and contorting by the pool

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Just when you thought the courts had injected some sanity into the DWI "crisis," an appellate court finds a way make it go away. T...
Friday, August 26, 2011

It's all about that filthy lucre

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If you ever had any questions about how much of a moneymaker DWI is, this article should put them to bed. A lawsuit has been filed in feder...