WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has limited the power of police to detain people who are not at home when their residence is to be searched. By a 6-3 vote Tuesday, the justices sided with a Long Island, N.Y., man ...

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A Baltimore detective lacked legal justification to use a stun gun on a fleeing man he suspected was armed, a divided Court of Appeals has held.

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How long can the government hold on to electronically stored information evidence without beginning any kind of review? U.S. v. Metter, No. 10-CR-600 (DLI), 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 155130 (E.D.N.Y. May 17, 2012) is apparently the first case to provide an answer to this question.

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So it turns out that, contrary to all appearances, Jay-Z is not the world’s foremost legal scholar after all. Caleb Mason, a law professor at Southwestern Law School recently published a 19 page legal analysis of Jay-Z’s 2004 hit “99 ...

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Maryland’s top court has reinstated a $200,000 damages award to a woman who was roused from her bed and assaulted by Prince George’s County deputy sheriffs executing an arrest warrant. In its 7-0 decision, the Court of Appeals said Kimberly ...

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As Jen posted Tuesday, the Supreme Court has ruled the government’s installation of a GPS device on a target’s vehicle, and its use of that device to monitor the vehicle’s movements, constitutes a “search.” The five-justice majority notably left out ...

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I understand that many people have a love/ hate relationship with their GPS. It can be a godsend for the directionally-challenged, but it can be an endless source of frustration when it loses its signal or only gets you in ...

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MIAMI — Franky the drug dog’s super-sensitive nose is at the heart of a question being put to the U.S. Supreme Court: Does a police K-9’s sniff outside a house give officers the right to get a search warrant for ...

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Criminal Procedure Search & seizure BOTTOM LINE: Police officer acted diligently in placing call to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to verify validity of defendant’s identification during traffic stop for possible impairment of driver of vehicle in which defendant was ...

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Happy Thanksgiving week. Here’s a little taste of what’s going on in the legal world in this shortened work week. This one’s a doozy: A Georgia woman has been arrested for administering illegal silicone injections into the hips and rear ...

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