Category: Search and Seizure

A reminder for officers to pay attention to the nuances of search warrants for electronic data

[vc_section css=".vc_custom_1540328728009{padding-top: 3em !important;padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"][vc_column width="2/3"]United States v. Tanguay, 2019 (1st Cir. 2019) An officer saw Eric Tanguay and a woman parked in a strip mall parking...

[vc_section css=".vc_custom_1540328728009{padding-top: 3em !important;padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"][vc_column width="2/3"]United States v. Terry, 2019 (7th Cir 2019) Agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration executed an arrest warrant...

Despite Colorado’s recreational marijuana law, an officer who detects the odor of marijuana during a traffic stop has probable cause to search the vehicle.

[vc_section css=".vc_custom_1540328728009{padding-top: 3em !important;padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"][vc_column width="2/3"]Carter v. Parris, 2018 (6th Cir. 2018) Deputies responded to a disturbance call and found a group of cars parked near an...

Law enforcement officers “secured” and searched a home following an overdose death of the resident, but search is ruled as violation of the Fourth Amendment.

The court rejected a defendant’s claim that state records law protected her from a random registration and driver’s license check by a police officer whom she passed on the road.