Going Back to the Well, er, Magistrate
Jeff Welty
I’ve been asked several times recently whether an officer who asks a magistrate to issue an arrest warrant and is turned down based on a lack of probable cause can […]
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February 2, 2010
I’ve been asked several times recently whether an officer who asks a magistrate to issue an arrest warrant and is turned down based on a lack of probable cause can […]
Read post "Going Back to the Well, er, Magistrate"December 2, 2009
Update: Check out this post about a recent court of appeals case in this area. Original post: Most DWI cases involve breath tests for alcohol. But there are circumstances in […]
Read post "Blood Draws in DWI Cases"November 25, 2009
I have been asked several times about the validity of search warrants that authorize the police to search a particular place and “all persons on the premises.” It sounds as […]
Read post "Search Warrants for “All Persons on the Premises”"October 14, 2009
by School of Government faculty member Michael Crowell In the last couple of years North Carolina has seen several high profile cases in which the sealing of a search warrant […]
Read post "Sealing Warrants"September 21, 2009
Computers and electronic storage media can hold massive quantities of data. At approximately 30,000 pages per gigabyte, a low-end laptop computer with a 250 gigabyte hard drive can store the […]
Read post "Computer Searches and Plain View"August 4, 2009
The Ninth Circuit recently decided United States v. Payton, a computer search case that quietly adopts some pretty radical ideas. Based on the lack of comments on my previous computer […]
Read post "Do Officers Need More than a Warrant to Search a Computer?"June 12, 2009
I’m getting ready to teach a session at the Superior Court Judges’ Conference about searches of computers and other electronic devices, so I’ve been reading all the computer search cases […]
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