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Deed Of Mistrust?: The Use Of Land Transfers To Evade The Establishment Clause, David C. Peet Oct 2009

Deed Of Mistrust?: The Use Of Land Transfers To Evade The Establishment Clause, David C. Peet

American University Law Review

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Say Cheese! Examining The Constitutionality Of Photostops, Molly Bruder Aug 2008

Say Cheese! Examining The Constitutionality Of Photostops, Molly Bruder

American University Law Review

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Reforming Fourth Amendment Privacy Doctrine, Jim Harper Jun 2008

Reforming Fourth Amendment Privacy Doctrine, Jim Harper

American University Law Review

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The "High-Crime Area" Question: Requiring Verifiable And Quantifiable Evidence For Fourth Amendment Reasonable Suspicion Analysis [Pdf], Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, Damien Bernache Jan 2008

The "High-Crime Area" Question: Requiring Verifiable And Quantifiable Evidence For Fourth Amendment Reasonable Suspicion Analysis [Pdf], Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, Damien Bernache

American University Law Review

This article proposes a legal framework to analyze the "high crime area" concept in Fourth Amendment reasonable suspicion challenges. Under existing Supreme Court precedent, reviewing courts are allowed to consider that an area is a "high crime area" as a factor to evaluate the reasonableness of a Fourth Amendment stop. See Illinois v. Wardlow, 528 U.S. 119 (2000). However, the Supreme Court has never defined a "high crime area" and lower courts have not reached consensus on a definition. There is no agreement on what a "high-crime area" is, whether it has geographic boundaries, whether it changes over time, whether …


United States V. Drayton: Supreme Court Upholds Standards For Police Conduct During Bus Searches, Andera K. Mitchell Jun 2002

United States V. Drayton: Supreme Court Upholds Standards For Police Conduct During Bus Searches, Andera K. Mitchell

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