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Reflections On Standing: Challenges To Searches And Seizures In A High Technology World, José F. Anderson
Reflections On Standing: Challenges To Searches And Seizures In A High Technology World, José F. Anderson
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Among the profound issues that surround constitutional criminal procedure is the obscure often overlooked issue of who has standing to challenge an illegal search, seizure or confession. Privacy interests are often overlooked because without a legal status that allows a person to complain in court, there is no way to challenge whether one is constitutionally protected from personal invasions. Standing is that procedural barrier often imposed to prevent a person in a case from objecting to improper police conduct because of his or her relationship of ownership, proximity, location, or interest in an item searched or a thing seized. Although …
Accountability Solutions In The Consent Search And Seizure Wasteland, José F. Anderson
Accountability Solutions In The Consent Search And Seizure Wasteland, José F. Anderson
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The legal and social issues that have emerged out of the doctrine that people in America have a right against unreasonable government instituted searches and seizures have dominated the dialogue and controversy in the American criminal justice system over the last three decades. A large portion of the debate has centered around the controversial exclusionary rule, which frees the sometimes unmistakably guilty because of irregularities in police procedure.
The notion that society suffers when criminals go free because of the constable's blunder has struck a decidedly political note in the discussion over criminal justice reform. Many observers are quick to …
Warrantless Investigative Seizures Of Real And Tangible Personal Property By Law Enforcement Officers, Steven A.G. Davison
Warrantless Investigative Seizures Of Real And Tangible Personal Property By Law Enforcement Officers, Steven A.G. Davison
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