Sen. Rand Paul's bill to ensure adequate protection of the rights under the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is not available on the Library of Congress website, perhaps until Tuesday.

A lot of hype in the news and press releases. Too bad they're keeping it from us until they want us to see it.

“The Court finds that Defendant has not met his burden and is not entitled to a Franks hearing. As an initial matter, Defendant does not point to specific portions of the affidavit that he claims to be false. However, Defendant does take issue with certain statements in the affidavit, which the Court will discuss.” United States v. Pentz, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 72640 (D. Utah May 21, 2013).*

The officer here had plenty of reasonable suspicion that defendant was involved in drug dealing based on experience and a four-year snitch. He saw a hand labeled package at FedEx that strongly suggested to him based on experience that it contained drugs. United States v. Beverly, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 72634 (W.D. Ky. April 15, 2013).*

Defendant was taken down in an illegal arrest, and then the gun on him was found. This is not a situation where there is a new crime before the arrest. There was no reasonable suspicion for the initial patdown. United States v. Evans, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 72580 (E.D. Tenn. May 22, 2013),* R&R 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 73293 (E.D. Tenn. April 8, 2013).*

The court finds credible the testimony of the officers that defendant consented to an entry and search of his apartment. United States v. Paulino, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 71978 (S.D. N.Y. May 21, 2013).*

The body armor and gun in defendant’s car was lawfully seized because the stop was with probable cause defendant was speeding, driving on the wrong side of the road, running a red light, and evading an officer trying to stop him. United States v. Bogle, 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 10377 (2d Cir. May 23, 2013).*

Politico.com: Report: Obama admin. fought to keep Rosen warrant secret by Dylan Byers:

Yet another development today in the case of James Rosen, the Fox News reporter who was monitored by the Justice Dept. after receiving classified information from a State Department security adviser.

According to The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza, the Obama administration fought to keep the search warrant for Rosen’s private e-mail account secret on the grounds that they might need to monitor the account for a long period of time.

A child pornography investigation led officers to a house with the IP address, but the search came up empty. There was a wireless router there, so the police went to neighbor’s houses to do a knock-and-talk for child porn. One of the neighbors admitted that she and her husband used it the wireless. They saw him driving nearby and stopped him, knowing there was a warrant for his arrest for something else. He consented to a search of the computer which was in his truck. United States v. Harper, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 71729 (W.D. Ark. April 4, 2013).*

Defendant was not entitled to withdraw her plea for ineffective assistance of counsel for defense counsel not filing a motion to suppress. First, it was in her interest for a better plea deal to not pursue a motion to suppress and she agreed to it. Second, the motion would fail on the merits. State v. Dorado, 2013 Tenn. Crim. App. LEXIS 419 (May 17, 2013).*

Defendant’s stop was lawful and not unreasonably extended. He had no DL on him, and the fact the officer was really investigating drugs was not material because it was otherwise reasonable. State v. Hughes-Mabry, 2013 Tenn. Crim. App. LEXIS 420 (May 16, 2013).*

Trial court’s finding of consent was supported by the evidence. Tucker v. State, 2013 Tex. App. LEXIS 6236 (Tex. App. – San Antonio May 22, 2013).* (They have server maintenance this weekend.)

WPIX: Cops claim cell phones recording them are deadly weapons to seize them (video) (this video is from NJ, but it claims similar occurrences in FL, CA, and AR)

HuffPo: Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio Racially Profiled Latinos, Federal Judge Rules:

PHOENIX, May 24 (Reuters) - Arizona lawman Joe Arpaio violated the constitutional rights of Latino drivers in his crackdown on illegal immigration, a federal judge found on Friday, and ordered him to stop using race as a factor in law enforcement decisions.

The ruling against the Maricopa County sheriff came in response to a class-action lawsuit brought by Hispanic drivers that tested whether police can target illegal immigrants without racially profiling U.S. citizens and legal residents of Hispanic origin.

U.S. District Court Judge Murray Snow ruled that the sheriff's policies violated the drivers' constitutional rights and ordered Arpaio's office to cease using race or ancestry as a grounds to stop, detain or hold occupants of vehicles - some of them in crime sweeps dubbed "saturation patrols."

A two-year-old order just released, the District of Maryland holds that the government’s generalized assertions of needs for secrecy of search warrant materials were insufficient. The investigation seemed over, and the target has a right to know why the government seized his stuff. The government has to provide a redacted affidavit now. In re 14416 Coral Gables Way, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 157361 (D.Md. April 5, 2011):

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