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Article • August 1, 2025 • from CLN August, 2025
Ninth Circuit: ‘Dominion and Control’ Provision of Search Warrant for Suspect’s Computer That Lacked Temporal or Other Limitation Constitutes General Warrant by Anthony Accurso The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overturned the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington’s denial of a defendant’s motion …
Arizona’s Secret Mass Surveillance System: An Obscure Financial Database Amasses Millions of Financial Records in the Shadows by Michael Thompson 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. …
News in Brief by 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, …
Delaware Supreme Court: Warrant That Authorized Search of ‘Any and All’ Data of Named Files on Cellphone Is Invalid General Warrant That Also Failed to Include Temporal Limitation by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney   The Supreme Court of Delaware ruled that a warrant authorizing a search and seizure of …
Article • December 15, 2023 • from CLN December, 2023
Seventh Circuit Announces Procedures for Addressing ‘Facially Questionable Warrant’ Due to ‘Material Handwritten Alterations’ Unsigned or Initialed by Issuing Judge by Richard Resch by Richard Resch In a case involving an issue of first impression, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that the U.S. District Court …
Oregon Supreme Court Clarifies Mansor Ruling for Search Warrants for Digital Data and Announces Framework for Suppression When Warrant Contains Both Constitutional and Unconstitutional Search Categories by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso The Supreme Court of Oregon clarified the procedure, flowing from its previous doctrine on cellphone searches, for …
Article • September 1, 2023 • from CLN September, 2023
Filed under: Probable Cause, Suppression
Sixth Circuit Suppresses Evidence Obtained as a Result of Warrant That Lacked Probable Cause of Criminal Activity in Arson Investigation by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W Accurso The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit required suppression of evidence based upon a warrant for evidence related to a structure …
Article • March 16, 2023
Technology Allows for Overbroad Searches on Warrants by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss Geofence location and reverse search warrants are the new trends in law enforcement agencies’ criminal investigations. But, their use concerns civil rights advocates because of the overbroad scope of their results and the means by which …
Article • February 15, 2023 • from CLN March, 2023
Filed under: Victims, Home Search
Indiana Supreme Court: Defendant Who Was Both Victim of Crime and Suspect in Unrelated Crime Entitled to Pirtle Warning Prior to Police Asking for Consent to Search Home by Anthony Accurso by Anthony Accurso The Supreme Court of Indiana reversed the denial of a suppression motion after finding that the …
Article • October 15, 2021 • from CLN November, 2021
Filed under: No-Knock Warrants
Justice Department Bans Chokeholds and Restricts No-Knock Entries for Federal Agents by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman The U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”)—parent agency of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; the Drug Enforcement Administration; the U.S. Marshals Service; and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives—announced on September 14, …
Article • September 15, 2021 • from CLN October, 2021
Tenth Circuit: Warrant Authorizing Search for Items ‘Involved in Crime’ Violates Fourth Amendment’s Particularity Requirement, Not Saved by Doctrine of Severability by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit held that a search warrant authorizing seizure of “any item identified as being …
Article • September 15, 2021 • from CLN October, 2021
SCOTUS: ‘Exceeds Authorized Access’ Under the CFAA Means Accessing Areas of Computer That Are Off-Limits on Computer Otherwise Authorized to Access by Douglas Ankney by Doug Ankney The Supreme Court of the United States (“SCOTUS”) held that for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(2), the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act …
Article • June 21, 2021
Civil Rights Investigation Sought Over “No-Knock” Raid On Wrong Michigan Home by A Michigan family terrorized by state police raiding their Flint home to erroneously execute a “no-knock” warrant requested a federal civil rights investigation on June 7, 2021, according to a report by MLive. After the raid on April …
Article • April 15, 2021 • from CLN May, 2021
Filed under: No-Knock Warrants
No-Knock Warrants Leave Trail of Terror, Property Damage, and Deaths by David Reutter by David M. Reutter As protests spread across the U.S. after the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police in May 2020, another police killing two months earlier in Kentucky gained notoriety – that …
Deal Presented by Kentucky Prosecutor Evidence of Effort to Smear Breonna Taylor by Casey Bastian by Casey Bastian Jamarcus Glover was offered a plea agreement on July 13, 2020, by Commonwealth attorney Tom Wine. Glover is a convicted felon with a history of drug trafficking. The plea would reduce the …
Pasadena Alternative Care, Inc. v. County of Los Angeles, CA, Settlement Agreement, Unlawful Seizure and Destruction of Property, 2020 SETTLEMENT AGREE.Mti:NT ANU MU'I'UAL GENERAL RELEASE This SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND MUTUAL GENERAL RELEASE (the "Agreement") is entered into by and between Pasadena Alternative Care Inc. ("Plaintiff'), on the one hand, and …
Article • July 15, 2020 • from CLN August, 2020
Colorado Supreme Court: Warrant Allowing General Search of Cellphone Unconstitutional Violation of Particularity Requirement by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Supreme Court of Colorado held that a warrant authorizing a general search of Pamela Kay Coke’s cellphone was overbroad and violated the Fourth Amendment’s particularity requirement. Fifteen-year-old T.F. told …
Article • July 15, 2020 • from CLN August, 2020
Unrest After Kentucky Cops Shoot Sleeping Black Woman to Death in Her Bed While Serving No-Knock Warrant by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Calling for “justice for Breonna,” a recent vigil in Louisville and demonstrations across the country have focused on the young unarmed Black woman fatally shot by police …
Article • May 15, 2020 • from CLN June, 2020
Filed under: No-Knock Warrants
‘No-Knock Raids’ an Increasing Danger to Public Safety by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Julian Betton was in his home minding his own business when the police crashed through his front door. The cops entered without knocking or identifying themselves as law enforcement, and Betton reacted as any citizen would …
Estate of Kevin Brown v. Lambert, CA, punitive damages, wrongful death, 2020 Case 3:15-cv-01583-DMS-WVG Document 192 Filed 02/18/20 PageID.5157 Page 1 of 1 1 2 3 FEB 18 2020 4 CLERK, U.S. DISTRICT COURT SOU1li DISTRICT CF CALIFORNIA £1V ,____DEPUlY 5 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA …
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