Daily Archives: February 8, 2016

Don’t expect much this week

I had five major deadlines in a row. No. 4 was a brief finished at 9:45 last night after two weeks of work in one of the FBI withdrawn hair analysis cases from a 1979 conviction. With our state abstracting … Continue reading

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CA1: Two computer tech’s searches were private searches; police called after first, but didn’t have enough

Defendant took his computer for repair, and the repair guy encountered pictures of children that made him uncomfortable. He called the police and described them. The officer didn’t think that a crime occurred, and he said so. The computer guy … Continue reading

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W.D.Mo.: General description of attacker here was a complete lack of PC for arrest

Defendant was searched incident to arrest for a rape. There, however, was a complete lack of probable cause for his arrest, and the search is suppressed. He was only the same general height and description of the attacker, and he … Continue reading

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