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Articles by Anthony Accurso

Colorado Supreme Court Announces New Rules for Awarding Presentencing Credit

Derick Wayne Russell was in community confinement following unrelated convictions in Jefferson County and Douglas County, ...

Washington Federal Court: Looking at Lock Phone Screen Requires Warrant

The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle ruled that the FBI conducted an illegal search of a defendant’s phone by powering it on to inspect the lock screen, resulting in suppression of information obtained from the search.

Joseph Sam was arrested pursuant ...

From Detroit: How Not to Use Facial Recognition in Policing

In January 2020, Robert Julian-Borchak Williams was working at an automotive supply company when he received what he thought was ...

Minnesota Cops Use Contact Tracing to Track Protestor Networks

According to Minnesota Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington, officials in the state have been using contact-tracing to map protestor affiliations and movements. ...

New ‘Barcode’ System Puts DNA Sample to the Authenticity Test

Engineers from Duke University and NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering have demonstrated a ...

Firms Selling Breached and Hacked Data To Law Enforcement

by Anthony W. Accurso

SpyCloud, a company that collects private information on people, mostly info exposed through data breaches, sells access to its databases to anyone willing to pay for it, including law enforcement. While it currently operates in an area of law mostly untouched by precedent, people should be ...

Triaging Evidence Can Lead to Oversights and Misinterpretation

by Anthony Accurso

A study from the UK found that triaging digital evidence can lead to oversights and misinterpretation when the process is not designed or implemented in a way that guards against such failures.

The data, published in the journal Policing and using data collected between January 2017 and ...

California Supreme Court: ‘Honest and Upright Life’ Possible While in Custody for Expungement Purposes

Misael Vences Maya was convicted of ...

Extending the Surveillance State During the Pandemic

In New York ...

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