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Article • June 30, 2000
California v. Ciraolo, No. 84-1513 (U.S. Supreme Court) (476 U.S. 207; 106 S.Ct. 1809) (May 19, 1986) (Justice Burger) by The Court observed that the fact that "the observation from [the] aircraft was directed at identifying the plants and the officers were trained to recognize marijuana [was] irrelevant." (Id., at …
Article • June 25, 2000
U.S. v. Jacobsen, No. 82-1167 (U.S. Supreme Court) (466 U.S. 109; 104 S.Ct. 1652) (April 2, 1984) (Justice Stevens) by In this case, the Court addressed two issues: whether law enforcement officers may conduct a warrantless search of the contents of a container merely because a private party has previously …
Article • June 24, 2000
U.S. v. Sokolow, No. 87-1295 (U.S. Supreme Court) (490 U.S. 1; 109 S.Ct. 1581) (April 3, 1989) (Justice Rehnquist) by Court held that in evaluating the validity of an investigative detention, the courts must consider "the totality if the circumstances - the whole picture" (id., at 7) - but the …
Article • June 24, 2000
Nix v. Williams, No. 82-1651 (U.S. Supreme Court) (467 U.S. 431; 104 S.Ct. 2501) (June 11, 1984) (Justice Burger) by Case held that the inevitably of discovering evidence by lawful means removes the taint from evidence first discovered through unlawful means. The defendant Williams was arrested for the murder of …
Article • June 24, 2000
Whren v. U.S., No. 95-5841 (U.S. Supreme Court) (517 U.S. 806; 116 S.Ct. 1769) (June 10, 1996) (Justice Scalia) by Case essentially upheld the validity of a pretextual traffic stop based on an infraction of some minor traffic offense even when the main goal is to search for contraband when …
Article • June 24, 2000
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Schneckloth v. Bustamonte, No. 71-732 (U.S. Supreme Court) (412 U.S. 218; 93 S.Ct. 2041) (May 29, 1973) (Justice Stewart) by In this case the Court established a "totality of circumstances" test to determine whether a defendant's consent to a search, if given at all, was voluntary and not the product …
Article • June 23, 2000
Ohio v. Robinette, No. 95-891 (U.S. Supreme Court) (519 U.S. 33; 117 S.Ct. 417) (November 18, 1996) (Justice Rehnquist) by Here the Court refused to adopt a bright line rule that a lawfully seized defendant be advised that he was "free to go" before the defendant's consent to search will …
Article • June 23, 2000
Minnick v. Mississippi, No. 89-6332 (U.S. Supreme Court) (498 U.S. 146; 111 S.Ct. 486) (December 3, 1990) (Justice Kennedy) by This case represents a further refinement of the rules laid down by the Court in Edwards v. Arizona, 451 U.S. 477 (1981) and Arizona v. Roberson, 486 U.S. 675 (1988). …
Article • June 22, 2000
Texas v. Brown, No. 81-419 (U.S. Supreme Court) (460 U.S. 730; 103 S.Ct. 1535) (April 19, 1983) (Justice Rehnquist) by Here the Court reversed a Texas Court's decision that the warrantless search of certain evidence could not be justified under the plain view doctrine because the incriminating evidence was not …
Article • June 21, 2000
Dalia v. U.S., No. 77-1722 (U.S. Supreme Court) (441 U.S. 238; 99 S.Ct. 1682) (April 18, 1979) (Justice Powell) by In this case three agents of the FBI pried open a window to petitioner's business office and secretly entered the premises. During the next three hours they moved freely about …
Article • June 21, 2000
U.S. v. Karo, No. 83-850 (U.S. Supreme Court) (468 U.S. 705; 104 S.Ct. 3296) (July 3, 1984) (Justice White) by In this case, DEA agents, authorized by court order, installed a transmitter in a can of ether that the government owned at the time, and then had an informant sell …
Article • June 19, 2000
City of West Covina v. Perkins, No. 97-1239 (U.S. Supreme Court) (525 U.S. 234; 119 S.Ct. 678) (January 13, 1999) (Justice Kennedy) by In this case West Covina police officers lawfully seized personal property from Lawrence Perkins's home pursuant to a valid search warrant when Perkins's former boarder became a …
Article • June 18, 2000
Maryland v. Dyson, No. 98-1062 (U.S. Supreme Court) (527 U.S. 465; 119 S.Ct. 2013) (June 21, 1999) (Per Curiam) by In this case, a Maryland sheriff's deputy received a tip from a reliable informant that Defendant Kevin Dyson, a known drug dealer, was in New York purchasing cocaine and would …
Article • June 17, 2000
U.S. v. Santana, No. 75-19 (U.S. Supreme Court) (427 U.S. 38; 96 S.Ct. 2406) (June 24, 1976) (Justice Rehnquist) by In this case, police officers arrested a woman inside her home after setting the arrest in motion at the threshold of her hom. Using marked money, police officers made an …
Article • June 7, 2000
U.S. v. Chadwick, No. 75-1721 (U.S. Supreme Court) (433 U.S. 1; 97 S.Ct. 2476) (June 21, 1977) (Justice Burger) by Here the Court vacated a conviction, holding that a warrantless search of a mobile footlocker violated the Fourth Amendment, and it rejected the Government's contention that the Amendment only applies …
Article • June 1, 2000 • from P&J June, 2000
U.S. v. Elkins, No. 96-20152 D (W.D.Tenn.) (95 F.Supp.2d 796) (March 6, 2000) (Judge Bernice B. Donald) by Some random thoughts of the validity of warrantless searches by means of a thermal imager, from a Tenth Circuit case on that topic. QUOTE OF THE WEEK - Some thoughts on the …
Article • June 1, 2000 • from P&J June, 2000
U.S. v. Mohammad, No. CR.98-342(WGB) (D.N.J.) (95 F.Supp.2d 236) (April 14, 2000) (Judge William G. Bassler) by United States v. Bein, No. 99-3822 (3rd Cir. 6/5/00) (Judge Greenberg) United States v. Mohammad, 95 F.Supp. 236 (D.N.J. 2000) (Judge Bassler) Both of these cases involved a common problem. A defendant is …
Article • June 1, 2000 • from P&J June, 2000
U.S. v. Bein, No. 99-3822 (3rd Cir.) (214 F.3d 408) (June 5, 2000) (Judge Morton I. Greenberg) by Here the Third Circuit held that since there was no express waiver of sovereign immunity in Rule 41(e) of the Fed.R.Crim.P., an aggrieved party could not obtain damages for the destruction of …
Article • June 1, 2000 • from P&J June, 2000
U.S. v. Hernandez-Zuniga, No. 99-40620 (5th Cir.) (215 F.3d 483) (June 14, 2000) (Judge Carolyn Dineen King) by A disturbing new trend of random searches of passengers on public transportation had begun to appear and, to date, at least two Circuits have approved such searches, even though they were unsupported …
Article • June 1, 2000 • from P&J June, 2000
U.S. v. Nava-Ramirez, No. 99-4123 (10th Cir.) (210 F.3d 1128) (April 10, 2000) (Judge Michael R. Murphy) by The defendant in this case was driving a car in which the owner of the vehicle, Steven Wald, was a passenger. A state police officer stopped the vehicle for having a cracked …
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