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At approximately 1:00 a.m. on October 14, 2020, officers from the New York City Police Department (NYPD) encountered Defendant Michael Hagood near a housing complex managed by the New York City Housi…

In Steagald v. United States, 451 U.S. 204 (1981), the Supreme Court held that, in the absence of valid consent or exigent circumstances, warrantless searches are per se unreasonable and violate the …

"[W]hen an officer has probable cause to believe evidence of a crime will be found specifically in the passenger compartment of a vehicle, and no other subsequent discovery or information provides fu…

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Alexander Hillel Treisman appeals the district court's denial of his motion to suppress evidence that police discovered while searching his van without a warrant. But warrantless searches of vehicles…

What began as a lawful traffic stop violated the Fourth Amendment’s shield against unreasonable seizures when the officers detoured from the traffic stop’s mission by conducting the dog sniff and inq…

On September 24, 2019, shortly after witnessing Manley Johnson leave Appellant Maurice Bailey's home, Kannapolis, North Carolina police officer Jeremy Page discovered 0.1 grams of cocaine base during…

In February 1980, petitioner Doggett was indicted on federal drug charges, but he left the country before the Drug Enforcement Agency could secure his arrest. The DEA knew that he was later imprisone…

The Fourth Amendment provides that “[t]he right of the people to be secure  in  their  persons,  houses,  papers  and  effects,  against  unreasonable  searches  and  seizures,  shall  not  be  viola…

Border Patrol agents watched a man climb over the Mexico-United States border fence and followed him as he took a taxi to Heriberto Perea-Rey's home. An agent watched the suspected undocumented alien…

The issue before this court is whether Captain Walsh was justified in making entry into the Defendant's residence without first obtaining a search warrant. The United States Supreme Court has held th…

“To invoke the Fourth Amendment protections, a person must show that [they] had a legitimate expectation of privacy.” U.S. v. Shryock, 342 F.3d 948, 978 (9th Cir. 2003) (citing Smith v. Maryland, 442…

On August 26, 2020, at approximately 2:32 AM, Odom drove past two California Highway Patrol officers at 92 miles per hour, in violation of California law. ECF No. 1 at 5. The officers followed the ve…

Under the Fourth Amendment, defendant had a legitimate expectation of *320 privacy in his rented hotel room. See Stoner v. California, 376 U.S. 483, 490, 84 S.Ct. 889, 11 L.Ed.2d 856 (1964); United S…

The Court concluded that “[o]nce the entity at issue is beyond the border, the concerns animating the border search doctrine, namely the integrity of the border, diminish, and the robust Fourth Amend…

The Border Search Doctrine is one of the longstanding warrantless search exceptions to the 4th Amendment.

Most searches at the border do not require a warrant or probable cause because of Congress’s a…

The Fourth Amendment protects individuals from unreasonable government searches and seizures.
•Seizures can be split into two categories.
oA seizure of property is “some meaningful interference with an…

The Fourth Amendment protects the “right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.” This protection is not limited to only …

Warrant. Defendant argues that the affidavit was insufficient because there is no information on the reliability of either confidential informant provided therein. Although the Court acknowledges tha…

But intoxication alone does not preclude a valid waiver. See United States v. Figueroa-Serrano, 971 F.3d 806, 815 (8th Cir. 2020) (finding a valid Miranda waiver when the suspect, after using marijua…