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Criminal Legal News: July, 2025

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Volume 8, Number 7

In this issue:

  1. Understanding Your Constitutional Rights in the 
‘100-Mile Border Zone’: A Primer for Non-Citizens in the United States When Confronted by Law Enforcement (p 1)
  2. The Algocracy Agenda: How AI and the Deep State 
Are Digitizing Tyranny (p 19)
  3. Colorado Supreme Court Announces Police Facilitating 
Drug-­Detection Dog’s Entry Into Vehicle by Opening Door 
During Traffic Stop Without Probable Cause Is Unconstitutional Search in Violation of Fourth Amendment (p 38)
  4. Arizona’s Secret Mass Surveillance System: An Obscure Financial Database Amasses Millions of Financial Records in the Shadows (p 42)
  5. News in Brief (p 50)

Understanding Your Constitutional Rights in the 
‘100-Mile Border Zone’: A Primer for Non-Citizens in the United States When Confronted by Law Enforcement

The “100-­mile border zone” is not just a geographic area—it is a legal construct that provides federal authorities broader powers to enforce the nation’s immigration laws. If you are within 100 miles of the nation’s land borders or coastlines, you are in the 100-­mile border zone, a region where ...

The Algocracy Agenda: How AI and the Deep State 
Are Digitizing Tyranny

This column was originally published on May 29, 2025, on Rutherford.org. It has been reprinted with permission

 

“If one company or small group of people manages to develop godlike digital superintelligence, they could take over the world. At least when there’s an evil dictator, that human is going to ...

Colorado Supreme Court Announces Police Facilitating 
Drug-­Detection Dog’s Entry Into Vehicle by Opening Door 
During Traffic Stop Without Probable Cause Is Unconstitutional Search in Violation of Fourth Amendment

The Supreme Court of Colorado held that the police conducted an unreasonable search under the Fourth Amendment of a defendant’s vehicle during a traffic stop when they facilitated entry into the vehicle by a drug-­sniffing dog without probable cause.

Tien Dinh Pham was observed leaving an area police alleged to ...

Arizona’s Secret Mass Surveillance System: An Obscure Financial Database Amasses Millions of Financial Records in the Shadows

In Arizona, a secretive program has quietly amassed a staggering trove of financial data on tens of millions of Americans and individuals worldwide, all under the guise of fighting crime. The Transaction Record Analysis Center (“TRAC”), operated with oversight from the Arizona Attorney General’s office, has ballooned into a mass ...

News in Brief

Arkansas: The downward spiral of former Hot Spring County Sheriff Derek “Scott” Finkbeiner, 47, continued with his fourth arrest on May 2, 2025, reported KATV out of Little Rock. The arrest stemmed from Finkbeiner’s attempt to contact a witness, co-­defendant Jordan Hammond, through the Signal app, violating a court order ...

 

 

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