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Newsby Staff WriterJanuary 16, 2002

Supreme Court Rules On Motorist Searches

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that in evaluating whether a police officer had "reasonable suspicion" to detain a suspect briefly for questioning, courts should pay more attention to the officer's experience and the event's overall context than to individual parts of an incident.

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Newsby Staff WriterJune 1, 2001

Supreme Court Rules Thermal Imaging Is a Search

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that thermal imaging to record the amount of heat emanating from a house, a police practice to help detect illegal drugs, represents a search covered by constitutional privacy protections.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 1, 2000

High Court: Fleeing, Other Factors Justify Detention

Ratcheting up the authority of police to stop and question fleeing individuals, the U.S. Supreme Court in mid-January, ruled that officers can legally detain someone who runs upon merely seeing the police if other factors are present and can be articulated by officers.

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Articlesby Dennis HallDecember 1, 1998

High Court Gang Case Tests America's Resolve

About the time you finish perusing this issue of POLICE, the U.S. Supreme Court will be hearing arguments in a gang-related case that - regardless of how it is decided - will have far-reaching effects for law officers, undoubtedly for years to come.

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