Daily Archives: January 27, 2022

TX: Pet’r gets remand over alleged pattern of lies elsewhere of one officer on SW application

Petitioner gets remand and a hearing that a police officer caught in lies on multiple search warrant applications around the same time could have here, too. Ex parte Mathews, 2022 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 36 (Jan. 26, 2022). Defendant’s father … Continue reading

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D.Nev.: Def’s Facebook posts he was selling fake IDs gave PC to search it

An officer found defendant selling fake IDs via Facebook. “The Facebook Warrant contained posts from this account indicating that the account-operator was selling fake IDs, including by specifying that the IDs could help people avoid warrants, fines, and jail time. … Continue reading

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CA2: MLAT treaty search of Netherlands server was a foreign search

El Chapo’s case: The district court was correct in not suppressing telephone calls on a drug cartel network set up in the Netherlands to facilitate their drug trafficking. The information was obtained by an MLAT treaty request, and it was … Continue reading

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