Daily Archives: July 6, 2014

S.D.N.Y.: Considering suppression being tried, not attacking just one officer’s credibility wasn’t IAC

Defense counsel was reasonable in not impeaching officer at suppression hearing with his disciplinary history considering the issue being tried. The issue for the suppression hearing was whether it was reasonable for the officers to believe defendant was where he … Continue reading

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The New American: So Much Warrantless Surveillance, Feds Can’t Keep Track

The New American: So Much Warrantless Surveillance, Feds Can’t Keep Track by Joe Wolverton, II: The National Security Agency (NSA) conducts warrantless surveillance of millions of people around the world and very little of it has anything to do with … Continue reading

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CA5: When qualified immunity is the issue, whether the 4A was violated isn’t even the “ultimate question”

Police received a 911 call that plaintiff’s son was a schizophrenic threatening death or certain injury. They came to her house, and she denied that he was there, but pleaded for help for him because he refused to take his … Continue reading

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CA9: Exigent circumstances justified warrantless entry into Navajo’s hogan

Defendant was arrested for sexual assault on an Indian reservation. The warrantless entry into his hogan was justified by exigent circumstances. United States v. McCabe, 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 12549 (9th Cir. July 2, 2014)*:

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