Daily Archives: January 14, 2020

NYTimes: Apple Takes a (Cautious) Stand Against Opening a Killer’s iPhones

NYTimes: Apple Takes a (Cautious) Stand Against Opening a Killer’s iPhones By Jack Nicas and Katie Benner (“The Silicon Valley giant is preparing for a legal fight over encryption, even as it works to reduce tensions with the Justice Department.”)

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techdirt: DHS Move Ahead With Plan To Harvest DNA Samples From Nearly Everyone Detained By ICE And CBP Privacy

techdirt: DHS Move Ahead With Plan To Harvest DNA Samples From Nearly Everyone Detained By ICE And CBPPrivacy by Tim Cushing:

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W.D.Ky.: Asking questions while writing out a warning ticket do not measurably extend a stop

Asking questions while writing out a warning ticket do not measurably extend a stop. United States v. Green, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 4421 (W.D. Ky. Jan. 10, 2020). Defendant’s arrest was valid, so his statement wasn’t fruit of the poisonous … Continue reading

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CA3: Nondisclosure order of GJ subpoena and later SW under SCA was reasonable based on GJ secrecy

A court order to not disclose the existence of a grand jury subpoena for records under the Stored Communications Act led to a search warrant for additional data. The order to not disclose is based on grand jury secrecy, and … Continue reading

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DE: Question about “Anything illegal in the car: Human beings, guns, drugs, dead bodies in the trunk” wasn’t unreasonable and didn’t measurably extend the stop.

Officer’s routine question about “Anything illegal in the car: Human beings, guns, drugs, dead bodies in the trunk” wasn’t unreasonable and didn’t measurably extend the stop. State v. Medina, 2020 Del. Super. LEXIS 18 (Jan. 7, 2020):

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