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To Knock Or Not To Knock? No-Knock Warrants And Confrontational Policing, Brian Dolan Oct 2019

To Knock Or Not To Knock? No-Knock Warrants And Confrontational Policing, Brian Dolan

St. John's Law Review

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This Note proceeds in three parts. Part I begins by explaining what no-knock warrants are and why they are used. Part I then addresses recent state legislative efforts to reform no-knock warrant use and argues that these efforts, however well-intentioned, are insufficient. Part I will also provide a brief history of how no-knock warrant use developed and gives an overview of the current status of state law regarding no-knock warrants. Part II argues that, contrary to the arguments of no-knock proponents, elimination of no-knock warrants and strict adherence to the knock-and-announce requirement is a more effective way to ensure …


Is Your Smartphone Conversation Private? The Stingray Device’S Impact On Privacy In States, Katherine M. Sullivan May 2018

Is Your Smartphone Conversation Private? The Stingray Device’S Impact On Privacy In States, Katherine M. Sullivan

Catholic University Law Review

“Where are you” is a common question to receive on your cellphone, but it is up to you whether or not to respond with an answer. No longer does this question need to be asked due to advancements in surveillance technology. When pinpointing a criminal suspect, the question can be answered by local and state agencies, without the person of interest knowing, by using a StingRay device. The main question to be asked is does the conduct of locating a criminal suspect’s exact location without a warrant, violate an individual’s Fourth Amendment Constitutional right to be free from unreasonable searches. …


Knock And Talk No More, Jamesa J. Drake Feb 2017

Knock And Talk No More, Jamesa J. Drake

Maine Law Review

The Supreme Court has set out a roadmap for challenging one of the most common and insidious police tactics used today: the knock-and-talk. The path is short and clear and it leads to the inescapable conclusion that the knock-and-talk—as it is actually employed in practice—is unconstitutional. Although the Court has yet to squarely consider the issue, some Justices have already taken pains to say, in dictum, that knock-and-talks are lawful. Practitioners should not be dissuaded. What this faction of the Court describes is a highly romanticized—and utterly inaccurate—conception of what a knock-and-talk actually entails. The sort of activity that these …


First They Came For The Child Pornographers: The Fbi's International Search Warrant To Hack The Dark Web, Zoe Russell Jan 2017

First They Came For The Child Pornographers: The Fbi's International Search Warrant To Hack The Dark Web, Zoe Russell

St. Mary's Law Journal

Abstract forthcoming.


Third Department, Rossi V. City Of Amsterdam, Aron Rattner Mar 2016

Third Department, Rossi V. City Of Amsterdam, Aron Rattner

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Beware Of Government Agents Bearing Trojan Horses, Brian L. Owsley Jul 2015

Beware Of Government Agents Bearing Trojan Horses, Brian L. Owsley

Akron Law Review

This Article addresses the use of Trojan devices by the Government to legally search computers potentially around the world. Although the Government does seek judicial authorization for these techniques based on a search warrant, there are still concerns about whether the applications meet constitutional standards as well as Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure (“Rule 41”). The use of these Trojan devices has not been addressed in current scholarship meaningfully; therefore, this Article focuses on when and how authorization of search warrant applications for these techniques are appropriate. Part II addresses the implications of the standards enunciated …


Criminal Procedure Decisions From The October 2006 Term, Susan N. Herman May 2014

Criminal Procedure Decisions From The October 2006 Term, Susan N. Herman

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Privacy In Social Media: To Tweet Or Not To Tweet?, Tara M. Breslawski Mar 2014

Privacy In Social Media: To Tweet Or Not To Tweet?, Tara M. Breslawski

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Striking A Balance: The Speech Or Debate Clause’S Testimonial Privilege And Policing Government Corruption, Jay Rothrock Jun 2013

Striking A Balance: The Speech Or Debate Clause’S Testimonial Privilege And Policing Government Corruption, Jay Rothrock

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


An Automobile Exception In Nevada: A Critique Of The Harnisch Cases, Thomas B. Mcaffee, John P. Lukens, Thaddeus J. Yurek Iii Jan 2008

An Automobile Exception In Nevada: A Critique Of The Harnisch Cases, Thomas B. Mcaffee, John P. Lukens, Thaddeus J. Yurek Iii

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Filling In Some Pieces: The Supreme Court’S Criminal Law Decisions In The 1998-1999 Term, William E. Hellerstein Jan 2000

Filling In Some Pieces: The Supreme Court’S Criminal Law Decisions In The 1998-1999 Term, William E. Hellerstein

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


What's In A Word? A Comparative Analysis Of Article I, § 12 Of The New York State Constitution And The Fourth Amendment To The United States Constitution As Interpreted By The New York Court Of Appeals And The United States Supreme Court, Douglas Holden Wigdor Jan 1998

What's In A Word? A Comparative Analysis Of Article I, § 12 Of The New York State Constitution And The Fourth Amendment To The United States Constitution As Interpreted By The New York Court Of Appeals And The United States Supreme Court, Douglas Holden Wigdor

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Searches And Seizures Jan 1996

Searches And Seizures

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Search & Seizure Jan 1995

Search & Seizure

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Search & Seizure Jan 1995

Search & Seizure

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Search And Seizure: People V. Martinez Jan 1994

Search And Seizure: People V. Martinez

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Search & Seizure Jan 1993

Search & Seizure

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Searches And Seizure Jan 1992

Searches And Seizure

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Search And Seizure Jan 1991

Search And Seizure

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Administrative Searches For Evidence Of Crime: The Impact Of New York V. Burger, Perry S. Reich Jan 1988

Administrative Searches For Evidence Of Crime: The Impact Of New York V. Burger, Perry S. Reich

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Street Perspective: A Conversation With The Police, Patrick L. Baude Oct 1975

The Street Perspective: A Conversation With The Police, Patrick L. Baude

IUSTITIA

Professor Baude's purpose in this discussion is to elicit police officers' comments on what members of the legal profession ought to know about the influence of the "street perspective" in shaping those officers' attitudes towards the criminal justice system and the role they play in it. It is police insistence on the broad validity of insights which only "the street" can provide that accounts for the considerable gulf between "front-line" enforcement officers and other functionaries in (and students of) that system. Law students (and no doubt lawyers) seem uncomfortable with the notion that our system cannot adequately be understood without …


Seizure Of Private Papers Pursuant To A Search Warrant: With Specific Application To Federal And California Bookmaking Prosecutions, Dennis G. Adams Jan 1965

Seizure Of Private Papers Pursuant To A Search Warrant: With Specific Application To Federal And California Bookmaking Prosecutions, Dennis G. Adams

San Diego Law Review

The federal exclusionary rule excludes evidence obtained by an illegal search and seizure. Recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions, such as Mapp v. Ohio and Malloy v. Hogan, have made the federal exclusionary rule and the Fifth Amendment's privilege against self-incrimination applicable to the states. Because this type of evidence usually forms the basis of bookmaking convictions, this article discusses whether such evidence can still be constitutionally seized in California. The author concludes that these Supreme Court cases have rendered California Penal Code § 1524, governing property validly seizable under a search warrant, unconstitutional.


Constitutional Law- Search And Seizure- Search Incidental To An Administrative Arrest, James J. White Dec 1960

Constitutional Law- Search And Seizure- Search Incidental To An Administrative Arrest, James J. White

Michigan Law Review

As a preliminary to deportation proceedings, defendant, Rudolf I. Abel, was arrested in his hotel room by Immigration and Naturalization Service agents who acted pursuant to a valid administrative arrest warrant. After the arrest, but without a search warrant, the INS searched Abel's room and seized evidence later used in his trial for espionage. In the district court Abel moved to suppress this evidence on the theory that the search violated the fourth amendment. The district court's denial of the motion was affirmed by the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. On certiorari to the United States Supreme Court, …


Constitutional Law-Fourth Amendment-Search Without A Warrant Incident To Arrest, G. B. Myers S.Ed. Nov 1950

Constitutional Law-Fourth Amendment-Search Without A Warrant Incident To Arrest, G. B. Myers S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

Respondent was convicted of selling and of possessing and concealing forged and altered stamps of the United States with intent to defraud. The primary evidence of "possessing and concealing" consisted of numerous forged and altered stamps taken from respondent's one room office by Federal officers immediately after his arrest. The stamps were the product of a one and one-half hour search of the desk, safe and file cabinets in the office. The officers, though without a search warrant for the premises, made the arrest pursuant to a valid warrant. Respondent protested the search, and this protest was renewed by motions …


Constitutional Law-Search And Seizure As An Incident To Lawful Arrest, Zolman Cavitch May 1949

Constitutional Law-Search And Seizure As An Incident To Lawful Arrest, Zolman Cavitch

Michigan Law Review

Petitioners, suspected of carrying on an illegal lottery, had been under police observation for several months, during which time one of the petitioners maintained a room in a rooming house in the District of Columbia. On the day of the arrest, a police officer, without a warrant, but believing the unlawful lottery to be in operation, climbed through a window of the landlady's room, and admitted two other officers. They proceeded to the petitioner's room, where one of the officers looked through the transom. Seeing the petitioners working on an illegal lottery, the officers entered the room, arrested the petitioners …