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Committed A Crime Searches And Seizures
1,728 wordsThe overall issue is whether the offered evidence obtained by the State in the robbery trial of Andy and Bob should be suppressed. The first issue is whether Officer Short had probable cause to stop the VW bug. When a police officer has probable cause to believe that a suspect has committed a crime, the officer makes an arrest. An arrest may occur either with or without a warrant (most are made without a warrant). Arrest usually involves taking the suspect into custody and transporting him to th...
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Searches And Seizures Probable Cause
1,074 wordsThe book, Terror on Highway 59 was about a reporter by the name of Steve Sellers. Steve was in his second week of his new job, for the Austin American Statesmen, when his city editor handed him a letter containing weird behavior on Highway 59. The letter was from a man named J. E. Foley. Foley complained about the San Jacinto County Sheriffs department. Foley was on his way home from Kentucky after visiting some friends in Houston, and had bought a new car. The officers pulled over the car he wa...
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Arrest Search Warrants And Probable Cause
1,681 words1. The United States Supreme Court has held that normally, a police seizure of either evidence of a crime in a constitutionally protected area or a possible criminal defendant must be based on probable cause (e. g. , Illinois v. Gates (1983) ). Furthermore, the Court has repeatedly stated that a government search or seizure on private premises without a warrant is presumptively unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment unless it falls within one of the "carefully delineated" (Welsh v. Wisconsin, (...
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Accidents Involving Probable Cause
1,284 wordsThe movement of millions of passengers over distances thought impossible decades ago is symbolic of the modern air transportation era that is characterized by speed, comfort and personal convenience. The commerce of aviation, both the operation of commercial aircraft for profit and the development of aeronautical systems, is also an important symbol of national prestige and a powerful economic force. Safety in air transportation is therefore a matter of significant national importance. The Natio...
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Search And Seizure Probable Cause
531 wordsOne night John Doe is driving down the freeway and is pulled over for a routine traffic violation. After issuing poor Johnny a traffic ticket the officer asks him one little question that could change Johnny's insignificant life forever. May I search your car? Now imagine if you were in Johns position, how would you have responded to the question. Would you have just said yes and let the officer go through your personal belongings, or would you say no. If you were to say no could it lead to cons...
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Law Enforcement Officer Plead Guilty
1,183 wordsThere are some 30, 374 lay magistrates in England and Wales, 15, 858 men and 14, 516 women, appointed by the Lord Chancellor or the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, in the name of the Crown. Magistrates are ordinary members of the community who sit in the Magistrates Courts and who dispense justice at the lowest level of the English court system. They are unpaid for what they do and therefore are not servants of the Crown. This supports their position of impartiality between the Crown and t...
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Equal Protection Clause Los Angeles Police
4,653 wordsI. INTRODUCTION Let me make this very clear. The Maryland State police has not, does not, nor will it ever condone the use of race-based profiling in determining which cars to stop on the highway. 1 Chief State Trooper Colonel David Mitchell issued this statement in response to a lawsuit filed against the Maryland State Troopers. The suit was filed on behalf of African-American motorists who alleged that these officers had engaged in a practice of targeting black motorists for traffic stops alon...
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Nations Security Council United Nations Security
3,485 wordsThe term laws of war refers to the rules governing the actual conduct of armed conflict. This idea that there actually exists rules that govern war is a difficult concept to understand. The simple act of war in and of itself seems to be in violation of an almost universal law prohibiting one human being from killing another. But during times of war murder of the enemy is allowed, which leads one to the question, if murder is permissible then what possible laws of war could there be? The answer t...
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Crime Scene Physical Evidence
3,240 wordsForensic Science: Proper Crime Scene Techniques. Essay, Forensic Science: Proper Crime Scene Techniques. The word Forensic is derived from the Latin forests, meaning of the forum. 1 In ancient Rome, the forum was where governmental debates were held, but it was also where trials were held the court house. From that, forensic science has come to mean the application of the natural and physical science to the resolution of matters within a legal context 2. Forensic Science can be viewed as a tripa...
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