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Check Yes For Checkpoints: Suspicionless Stops And Ramifications For Missouri Motorists, Conner Harris
Check Yes For Checkpoints: Suspicionless Stops And Ramifications For Missouri Motorists, Conner Harris
Missouri Law Review
One of the great advantages of living in a free society is the enjoyment of general privacy and freedom from unwarranted interference in one’s personal affairs. This advantage benefits citizens in both their private and public interactions. For example, it is expected one could drive to the store across town, the mall in a neighboring city, or somewhere on the other side of the country uninterrupted and unhindered. The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution codifies this privacy expectation as a right to be enjoyed by all within its reach. Specifically, the Fourth Amendment protects against “unreasonable searches and …
Is It Hot In Here - The Eighth Circuit's Reduction Of Fourth Amendment Protections In The Home, William E. Marcantel
Is It Hot In Here - The Eighth Circuit's Reduction Of Fourth Amendment Protections In The Home, William E. Marcantel
Missouri Law Review
Several years ago, the United States military developed thermal imaging technology for targeting and reconnaissance purposes which law enforcement agencies subsequently adopted as a means of conducting surveillance in support of counter-narcotics efforts. Police use thermal imaging devices in counter-narcotics operations by scanning buildings and homes in order to determine higher heat emissions from buildings. These higher than normal thermal readings of homes act as indicators of possible marijuana grow operations due to the high output of heat from the indoor lamps commonly used for such activities. Even though a majority of jurisdictions have held that a thermal imaging scan …
Prospective Limitation Of Constitutional Decisions In Criminal Cases, John F. Dobbyn
Prospective Limitation Of Constitutional Decisions In Criminal Cases, John F. Dobbyn
Missouri Law Review
In 1965, the Supreme Court was impelled by circumstances of its own making to launch itself on the uncharted course of prospective limitation of its decisions in the field of constitutional rights of the criminal defendant. The evolution of that principle, through the cases that followed its inception in Linkletter v. Walker, provides an interesting chapter in the evolution of the Court itself, with serious implications concerning the Court's relative position in a constitutionally constructed system of government. While Linkletter gave birth to the device of prospective application of constitutional decisions, it was inevitably conceived some four years earlier in …