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    Tucson, Arizona: Court Suppresses Phone Search, Tells Cops Warrant With No Probable Cause Is Like Having No Warrant At All

    Court Suppresses Phone Search, Telling Cops A Warrant With No Probable Cause Is Like Having No Warrant At All 22 July 2022 Not every crime is linked to a cell phone, no matter what cops may think. True, cell phones are omnibuses of information, containing overflowing email inboxes, social...
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    Washington, D.C.: Court Says Lying Amtrak Officer Brandt Bartman Can’t Have His Inconsistent Statements & His Evidence, Too

    DC Federal Court Says Lying Amtrak Officer Can’t Have His Inconsistent Statements And His Evidence Too 1 April 2022 Cops lie. It’s a fact. It’s called testilying and it happens so often hardly anyone can even be bothered to act surprised when these lies are exposed. This case — coming to us...
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    Law Prof Jane Bambauer Suggests Geofence Warrants Are Net Gain For Public, Even If They Invert Probable Cause Standard

    Law Prof Suggests Geofence Warrants Are A Net Gain For The Public, Even If They Invert The Probable Cause Standard 5 April 2022 On March 9th, we covered a Virginia court’s decision to reject a geofence/”reverse” warrant as unconstitutional. This was brought to our attention by...
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    Pennsylvania Says Legal Medical Marijuana Means Cops Can't Just Sniff Their Way Into Warrantless Searches

    Pennsylvania Says Legal Medical Marijuana Means Cops Can't Just Sniff Their Way Into Warrantless Searches 19 January 2022 The legalization of marijuana is changing the probable cause equation all over the nation. What used to be an easy bust and/or a great way to engage in warrantless...
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    Maryland Court Says Baltimore Prosecutors Can't Hide Their 'Do Not Call' List Of Bad Cops From The Public

    Maryland Court Says Baltimore Prosecutors Can't Hide Their 'Do Not Call' List Of Bad Cops From The Public 7 January 2022 Changes in law, court decisions, and transparency efforts have resulted in the public release of names of officers prosecutors consider too unreliable to ask to testify in...
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    Colorado Appeals Court Says A Drug Dog That Alerts On Now-Legal Weed Can't Create Probable Cause For A Search

    Colorado Appeals Court Says A Drug Dog That Alerts On Now-Legal Weed Can't Create Probable Cause For A Search 2 December 2021 "Probable cause on four legs." That's the cop nickname for drug dogs, which need to do nothing more than something only perceptible to the officer/trainer to allow...
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    Denver: Students Have Rights - Court Dumps Evidence After Cops Rely On A Month-Old Anonymous Tip To Search A Minor

    Students Have Rights: Court Dumps Evidence After Cops Rely On A Month-Old Anonymous Tip To Search A Minor 9 November 2021 As courts seemingly have to remind school administrators (and their partners in unconstitutional crime, school police officers), students -- even minors -- still have...
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