Daily Archives: December 5, 2016

Miami New Times: Miami Gardens Cop Says He Was Fired for Reporting Illegal Stop-and-Frisks

Miami New Times: Miami Gardens Cop Says He Was Fired for Reporting Illegal Stop-and-Frisks by Brittany Shammas: Between 2008 and 2013, Miami Gardens Police ran what one public defender called ‘New York City stop-and-frisk on steroids.’…Now a former Miami Gardens … Continue reading

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USA Today: Column: Predictive policing violates more than it protects

USA Today: Column: Predictive policing violates more than it protects by William Isaac & Kristian Lum: System meant to alleviate police resources disproportionately targets minority communities, raises Fourth Amendment concerns.

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WaPo: Companies may be willing to pay for data from Fitbits, other wearable sensors

WaPo: Companies may be willing to pay for data from Fitbits, other wearable sensors by Des Bieler: Naturally, privacy concerns abound here, and Olshansky emphasized that he was ‘acutely sensitive to those issues.’ He added: ‘We think that personal health … Continue reading

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D.Colo.: Def couldn’t claim blanket suppression where hundreds of items were seized but he challenged only three

Restating the Tenth Circuit’s rule permitting blanket suppression for serious overseizure contrary to the warrant, the court finds that this one doesn’t measure up. The inventory went on for 50 pages, but defendant only challenged three items of artwork that … Continue reading

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MD: Strip search incident to arrest was valid on balance on this record

On this record with a wealth of reasonable suspicion and then probable cause, a strip search incident to arrest was justified at the police station in the breathalyser room. Defendant stripped and bent over but refused to spread his cheeks. … Continue reading

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CA5: 45 minute empty-handed search after dog alert didn’t dissipate the probable cause

Defendant was stopped for a traffic offense, but the officers had been briefed on defendant by the DEA. (The pre-Jones GPS monitoring of defendant’s car for 73 days is valid under Davis.) He wouldn’t make eye contact, his hands were … Continue reading

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W.D.Pa.: Even a closed email account adds nothing to a child porn staleness argument

Officers in the U.S. received information from Queensland, Australia that an Australian using a hotmail account had been emailing child pornography. One of those was in this district. By the time the search warrant was sought nine months later, the … Continue reading

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OR: Any exigency of def’s expressed suicidal thoughts had passed by the time officers searched her room

The trial court erred in denying defendant’s motion to suppress because the search of defendant’s bedroom did not fall within the emergency aid exception to warrant requirement in the state constitution. First, defendant was sitting outside the house when officers … Continue reading

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