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Personal Curtilage: Fourth Amendment Security In Public, Andrew Ferguson Jan 2014

Personal Curtilage: Fourth Amendment Security In Public, Andrew Ferguson

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Do citizens have any Fourth Amendment protection from sense-enhancing surveillance technologies in public? This article engages a timely question as new surveillance technologies have redefined expectations of privacy in public spaces.This article proposes a new theory of Fourth Amendment security based on the ancient theory of curtilage protection for private property. Curtilage has long been understood as a legal fiction that expands the protection of the home beyond the formal structures of the house. Curtilage recognizes a buffer zone beyond the four corners of the home that deserves protection, even in public, even if accessible to public view. Based on …


Big Data Distortions: Exploring The Limits Of The Aba Leatpr Standards, Andrew Ferguson Jan 2014

Big Data Distortions: Exploring The Limits Of The Aba Leatpr Standards, Andrew Ferguson

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This article examines the American Bar Associations’ Standards for Criminal Justice proposed Law Enforcement Access to Third Party Records (LEATPR). The article was written to be part of an Oklahoma Law Review Symposium on the subject of the LEATPR Standards. The article explores how the ABA LEATPR Standards can survive the impact of big data policing. Big data policing, as described here, involves utilizing vast, networked databases to investigate and also predict criminal activity. Big data policing involves the use of not just third party, but "fourth party" commercial aggregators as well as de-identified data sets, that eventually can be …


Constitutional Culpability: Questioning The New Exclusionary Rules, Andrew Ferguson Jan 2014

Constitutional Culpability: Questioning The New Exclusionary Rules, Andrew Ferguson

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This article addresses the questions left unanswered by the Supreme Court’s recent exclusionary rule cases. The Hudson-Herring-Davis trilogy presents a new and largely unexamined doctrinal landscape for Fourth Amendment suppression hearings. Courts, litigators, and scholars are only now assessing what has changed on the ground in trial practice.Once an automatic remedy for any constitutional violation, the exclusionary rule, now necessitates a separate and more searching analysis. Rights and remedies have been decoupled, such that a clear Fourth Amendment constitutional violation may not lead to the exclusion of evidence. Instead, it now leads to an examination of the conduct of the …


Police Officer's Safety: An Exception Within An Exception Of The Fourth Amendment, Jeffrey T. Wennar Jan 2014

Police Officer's Safety: An Exception Within An Exception Of The Fourth Amendment, Jeffrey T. Wennar

Criminal Law Practitioner

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