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February 16, 2012
The Supreme Court of North Carolina recently decided State v. Mbacke, an important case about searches incident to arrest. I mentioned Mbacke briefly in this prior post, which noted that […]
READ POST "Coming Mbacke to an Old Topic: Vehicle Searches Incident to Arrest (February 16, 2012)"February 15, 2012
The lead story in the January 30, 2012 issue of North Carolina Lawyer’s Weekly was headlined “Necessary’s Restraint: The night police officer Richard Necessary sat on a drunk-driving suspect in […]
READ POST "The Forcible Extraction of Blood in Impaired Driving Cases: How Much Force Is Too Much Force? (February 15, 2012)"February 9, 2012
Several years ago, I blogged about a case in which the government sought to compel a criminal defendant to provide the password to his encrypted computer, or at least, to […]
READ POST "Passwords and the Fifth Amendment (February 9, 2012)"February 7, 2012
A recent en banc decision from the Supreme Court of Missouri adds to the growing divide among state appellate courts regarding whether the exigency created by the dissipation of blood-alcohol […]
READ POST "Warrantless Blood Draws and the Fourth Amendment (Again) (February 7, 2012)"January 30, 2012
I’ve had quite a few questions from officers and others about United States v. Jones, the Supreme Court’s recent GPS tracking decision. I previously summarized the case here. Below, I’ve […]
READ POST "Advice to Officers after Jones (January 30, 2012)"January 24, 2012
Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court decided United States v. Jones, the important GPS tracking case I previously blogged about here. (The case was captioned United States v. Maynard at […]
READ POST "The Supreme Court on GPS Tracking: U.S. v. Jones (January 24, 2012)"January 5, 2012
NCAWARE is an acronym for the North CArolina WArrant REpository. It is the computer system that is used by judicial officials, usually magistrates, to create criminal process documents such as […]
READ POST "Officers and NCAWARE (January 5, 2012)"December 6, 2011
In connection with some teaching that I have coming up, I’ve prepared a short outline summarizing the law of interrogation. It’s available as a PDF here. It covers voluntariness, Miranda, […]
READ POST "The Law of Interrogation (December 6, 2011)"December 5, 2011
At the start of the fall semester, the Daily Tar Heel reported that Chapel Hill and Carrboro police officers have combined forces with UNC campus police in an effort to […]
READ POST "PBTs and the Fourth Amendment (December 5, 2011)"October 26, 2011
I’ve recently been asked by several people whether it is lawful to require officers to issue a certain number of citations, or to make a certain number of arrests, per […]
READ POST "Are Ticket or Arrest Quotas Lawful? (October 26, 2011)"