Tag: Search and Seizure: Page 4

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Dogs, Drugs, and the Fourth Amendment

Two cases from Florida have brought the U.S. Supreme Court to two different conclusions regarding K-9 searches in 2013. One is an affirmation of existing practice, but the other breaks new ground and imposes new limits.

May 2, 2013

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Video: Troopers Indicted for Roadside Cavity Search

A Dallas County grand jury has indicted two Texas Department of Public Safety troopers on criminal charges stemming from a roadside cavity search of two north Texas women in July.

March 26, 2013

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Supreme Court: K-9 Search Violated Home Privacy

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of a marijuana grower's privacy rights Tuesday, when a majority of justices decided a Florida K-9's alert outside a home resulted in an unconstitutional arrest.

March 25, 2013

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Video: Footage Shows Finding of UCF Shooter's Body

The University of Central Florida released footage of its officers locating the body of a suspect who planned to attack other students, but instead killed himself.

March 20, 2013

Technology

N.C. University Introduces Law Enforcement App

The University of North Carolina has developed an investigative mobile app for officers in that state called ASSET (Arrest, Search, and Seizure Electronic Tool), the university announced.

March 12, 2013

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Okla. Police Find Revolver In Woman's Vagina

Police in Ada, Okla., arrested 28-year-old Christie Dawn Harris after a search of her car yielded meth, drug paraphernalia, a pistol, and ammunition.

March 6, 2013

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ACLU Questions Police Agencies About Militarization

The ACLU will request information about SWAT teams, such as how often and for what reasons they're deployed, what types of weapons they use, how often citizens are injured during SWAT raids, and how they're funded.

March 5, 2013

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Unlawful Reaction to Unlawful Action

Let's face it—law enforcement officers sometimes make detentions, arrests, entries, or searches that run afoul of one or more of the hundreds of judicial decisions differentiating "reasonable" and "unreasonable" searches and seizures.

March 4, 2013

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Mass. Police Dog Locates, Fires Handgun

A Massachusetts police dog searching for a handgun not only found the weapon but fired it with his paw, a police chief said Sunday.

March 3, 2013

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Supreme Court Validates K-9 Search

A Florida police dog's alert at a traffic stop that led to a van driver's conviction on drug charges established probable cause for the search, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.

February 18, 2013

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Supreme Court Limits Detention Powers In Searches

Suffolk County (N.Y.) Police detectives who detained two suspects, while officers searched a dwelling exceeded the scope of their search warrant, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.

February 18, 2013

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Video: Cop Confiscates Video from 'Citizen Journalist'

A woman who considers herself a "citizen journalist" told KATU she plans to sue, after a Gresham (Ore.) Police officer seized video she captured during an arrest.

February 17, 2013