Daily Archives: February 23, 2020

Mother Jones: California Cops Are Collecting Info on Millions of Drivers Who Have Done Nothing Wrong

Mother Jones: California Cops Are Collecting Info on Millions of Drivers Who Have Done Nothing Wrong (“With few rules and no oversight, California’s biggest law enforcement agencies are sharing millions of driver records.”)

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CBS News: Racial Profiling 2.0

CBS News: Racial Profiling 2.0 (“As police departments turn to big data to help reduce crime in their neighborhoods, advocacy groups are sounding the alarm about high-tech racial profiling. The algorithm-driven systems analyze supposedly impartial historical crime data to predict … Continue reading

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OH: Lack of RS for stop or knowledge of an arrest warrant denies state reliance on Strieff for outstanding warrant

Defendant was sitting in a car near a drug house doing nothing wrong. Police accosted him under the pretext there might be a warrant for him. It turned out there was. Even applying Strieff, the court concludes that Strieff was … Continue reading

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OH: While affidavit for SW may have been deficient, it was supplemented by testimony and it was reasonable to find PC

While the affidavit itself may have been deficient on showing probable cause, the officer provided the issuing magistrate additional information to supplement it. Thus, the officer reasonably relied upon the warrant in good faith. Trial court erred in suppressing. State … Continue reading

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CA11: Further detaining plaintiff at jail after she made bond on a hunch she was not legally in the U.S. denied QI

“The evidence, interpreted in the light most favorable to Alcocer, is sufficient for a reasonable jury to conclude that Mills violated Alcocer’s Fourth Amendment rights by continuing to detain her without new probable cause after her attempted posting of bond … Continue reading

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W.D.N.Y.: Getting def to unlock his phone wasn’t unreasonable because the SIM card would have been forensically searched later anyway

It was reasonable for POs to search defendant’s unapproved cell phone without a search warrant as a probation search. Making him use his face or get the password to unlock the phone was not unreasonable because the contents of the … Continue reading

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N.D.Miss.: Issuing USMJ can’t be subpoenaed to testify to mental impressions in issuing SW

Defendant doesn’t get to subpoena the issuing magistrates for the search warrant because their mental impressions are irrelevant and whether a telephonic warrant was avoidable by essentially shopping for a different judge. Nevertheless, the issue is held in abeyance since … Continue reading

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