[vc_section css=".vc_custom_1540328728009{padding-top: 3em !important;padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]A confidential informant (CI) told officers that Faulkner was traveling to and from Chicago to obtain heroin and then sell it in Minneapolis....
[vc_section css=".vc_custom_1540328728009{padding-top: 3em !important;padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]An officer stopped Strieff after he left a home where officers had watched numerous persons come and go after a brief visit. Suspecting that...
[vc_section css=".vc_custom_1540328728009{padding-top: 3em !important;padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]An officer stopped DE L’Isle for following too closely to a large truck. The officer smelled burnt marijuana and saw air fresheners inside DE...
[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]Taylor v. State, (Md. 2016) An officer stopped Taylor for speeding and blowing a stop sign. The officer smelled alcohol on Taylor’s breath and body, saw Taylor’s bloodshot...
[vc_section css=".vc_custom_1540328728009{padding-top: 3em !important;padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]G.B.’s “occasional sexual partner” cut him with a kitchen knife after she learned that he had slept with another woman. G.B. sought medical...
[vc_section css=".vc_custom_1540328728009{padding-top: 3em !important;padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]A campus police officer responded to a call to investigate a man pushing a woman. The officer encountered Thomas, a student who had been...
[vc_section css=".vc_custom_1540328728009{padding-top: 3em !important;padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]In recent articles (see here, here and here) I’ve discussed some of the issues around curtilage. Curtilage is that invisible legal boundary...
[vc_section css=".vc_custom_1540328728009{padding-top: 3em !important;padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]When seeking to apprehend a suspect at a third party’s home, officers need both an arrest warrant and a search warrant. On the other hand, if...
[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]Pearson brought a bag of marijuana to the home of his girlfriend’s mother. Two men came to the home and spoke with Pearson. Pearson placed the bag of marijuana on the table...
[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]A group of 15 shifting suspects committed a string of armed robberies at Radio Shack and T-Mobile stores. When four of the men were arrested, one soon implicated Carpenter...
[vc_section css=".vc_custom_1540328728009{padding-top: 3em !important;padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]A confidential informant told detectives about drug dealing at an apartment building. The informant said that the dealer drove a black Cadillac...
[vc_section css=".vc_custom_1540328728009{padding-top: 3em !important;padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]Every investigator does it: preparing a search warrant by including some paragraphs recycled from a previous warrant. For some of us, that...
