Daily Archives: May 14, 2018

SCOTUS: The driver of a rental car not on the contract may have a REP in the car

The driver of a rental car not listed on the contract may have a reasonable exception of privacy in the car Byrd v. United States, 2018 U.S. LEXIS 2803 (May 14, 2018). Syllabus:

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Washington City Paper: Civil Rights and Activist Groups Sue Bowser Over Stop-and-Frisk Data Collection

Washington City Paper: Civil Rights and Activist Groups Sue Bowser Over Stop-and-Frisk Data Collection by Matt Cohen: ACLU-DC, Black Lives Matter D.C., and the Stop Police Terror Project D.C. want the mayor and MPD to comply with the two-year-old law.

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E.D.Mich.: No IAC where suppression motion wouldn’t be granted

Defense counsel wasn’t ineffective for not moving to suppress cell phone records in 2014 because that motion would not be granted. United States v. Scott, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 78666 (E.D. Mich. May 10, 2018).* The CI’s information was corroborated … Continue reading

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