…and Safety Act of 2006, Pub. L. 109-248—the successor to the Jacob Wetterling Act. As I discussed in the prior post linked in the opening paragraph above, one portion of…
…Barack Obama. North Carolina Court of Appeals. Though court of appeals’ races likewise are (at least nominally) nonpartisan, with the two highest vote-getters in an open primary election appearing on…
…court to order felony deferred prosecution is conspicuous in its absence. To be clear, though, it is an open question; I’m not aware of any appellate cases on point. Conditional…
…found no plain error, as “[s]urveillance of areas open to view of the public without any invasion of the property itself is not alone a violation” of the Fourth Amendment,…
…an automobile on public thoroughfares has no reasonable expectation of privacy in his movements from one place to another,” given that those movements are open to the observation of anyone…
…not limited to, places described in (1) that are located in malls, shopping centers, or other property open to the general public; or (3) At any place where minors gather…
…law professor says yes, because “[b]y showing you opened the phone, you showed that you have control over it.” A different professor says no, because placing your finger on a…
…noted that the officers did not cross or open any fence or barrier, nor did they use the sighting of the plants as an excuse to conduct a general search…
…(the defendant consented, but wasn’t able to open the trunk of the vehicle, so no search was completed), and so on. At 12:03, the officer began a license check, and…