October Term 2013 Begins: Supreme Court Preview
Each year on the first Monday in October, the Supreme Court begins a new term. Today’s the first Monday in October 2013, so in this post, I’ll summarize several of the criminal cases that the Court...
View ArticleUnited States Supreme Court Clarifies When Consent to Search by One...
Last week the United States Supreme Court in Fernandez v. California (February 25, 2014) clarified an issue left open in its ruling in Georgia v. Randolph, 547 U.S. 103 (2006): the validity of a...
View ArticleWhat Constitutes Valid Consent When One Co-Occupant Consents and the Other...
Generally, officers may obtain a valid consent to search only from a person whose reasonable expectation of privacy may be invaded by the proposed search. Sometimes two or more people—for example,...
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