September 22, 2024 [View / Download]
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Ninth Circuit Limits High-Risk Vehicle Stops: New Potential Liability Risks for Police
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California Court Clarifies Rules on Prolonged and Pretextual Traffic Stops
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Ninth Circuit ruling limits Use of Deadly Force Immunity in a Knee to the Neck and Back Case.
September 01, 2024 [View / Download]
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Ninth Circuit Rules Parole Questions During Traffic Stops Are Constitutionally Valid
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Ninth Circuit Rules Deadly Force Justified in the Fatal Shooting of a Knife-Wielding, Mentally Ill Man
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To Search or Not to Search: Case Explores When it’s Lawful to Search an Impounded Car and When it’s Not
August 04, 2024 [View / Download]
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The legality of inventory searches of an arrestee’s personal belongings without a booking
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Court Invalidates Evidence Discovered After Group Detention Expires
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Court Rules Forcing Parolees to Use Biometrics to Unlock Phones Is Lawful
July 01, 2024 [View / Download]
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Court Rules on Detentions vs. Consensual Encounters Amid Implicit Bias Concerns
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When is the Use of Deadly Force Lawful? And Does “Legal” Equate to Right?
May 01, 2024 [View / Download]
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Emerging Legal Issues in Compelling the Use of One’s Fingerprint to Open a Phone
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Beware Explicit and Implicit Bias: The California Racial Justice Act Has No Tolerance for Racism
April 07, 2024 [View / Download]
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Can You Detain Non-Suspects with No Reasonable Suspicion to Believe They Are Involved in a Crime?
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Fourth Amendment Waiver Searches: Don’t Prolong a Detention Beyond Why You First Stopped a Driver
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More on Prolonged Detentions: Careful Not to Stray from the ‘Mission of the Traffic Stop’
March 14, 2024 [View / Download]
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Detentions and Consent: When Do Legal Searches Turn Illegal, and Potential Evidence Suppressed?
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New Case on Consent Searches When Tenants’ Wishes Conflict, and When a Suspect is “Present” to Object
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New Decision Rules on Constitutionality of Fixed-Camera Monitoring in Public
January 21, 2024 [View / Download]
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New, Rare Case on Wiretaps, Prescription Databases, GPS Tracking Warrants and Wiretap Statutes
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DUI Blood Draws and Implied vs. Express Consent, a Complex Issue
December 23, 2023 [View / Download]
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Free Speech, the First Amendment, and Time, Place and Manner Restrictions in Public Spaces
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New Fourth Amendment Ruling Discusses Undercover Searches and Residential Entries While Recording
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Deadly Force, Qualified Immunity and Civil Liability: We’re Not in California Anymore with This Case
November 30, 2023 [View / Download]
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Can you coerce a subject into allowing you to search his vehicle? When is consent voluntary – or not?
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What’s the Standard for Knowing if a Suspect is Subject to a Fourth Amendment Waiver Search?
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Miranda Invocations and Waivers: Timing Is Important When a Suspect Talks After Waiving His Rights
October 26, 2023 [View / Download]
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All About Pretext Stops, Unduly Long Detentions and Weapons Pat Downs: What’s Legal, from a New Ruling
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Automobile Exception to Search Warrant Rules: In a Warrantless Search, Probable Cause Still Required
September 23, 2023 [View / Download]
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Geofence Warrants – Be Specific in Time, Location and Scope of What You’re Seeking
August 21, 2023 [View / Download]
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Can Law Enforcement Impound a Vehicle Solely for Unpaid Parking Citations? New Case Law Clarifies
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Is Deadly Force Reasonable When a Suspect is Pointing a Replica Firearm?
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Exploring a Citizen’s Refusal to Cooperate, Probable Cause to Arrest Them, Use of Force and Retaliation
July 17, 2023 [View / Download]
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New Appellate Decision Clarifies Legal Use of Cuffs and Firearm During a Detention
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California Supreme Court Limits Absolute Immunity for Public Employees’ Actions During Investigations
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Appeals Ruling Clarifies What’s Needed in a DNA-Related Search Warrant Affidavit
June 24, 2023 [View / Download]
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Convicted felons are not included in the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms
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Temporary DVROs: What if the subject hasn’t been served? What if they don’t know it exists?
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Circuit Court Rules on the “Danger Doctrine” and How it Applies in Civil Cases
May 13, 2023 [View / Download]
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A Geofence Search Warrant Must Particularly Describe the Thing or Place to be Searched and the Property
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The Use of Deadly Force and the Duty to Warn
April 09, 2023 [View / Download]
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A Statute That Purports to Make Illegal the Videotaping of Police in Public Violates the 1st Amendment
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Searches of Vehicles for Marijuana & Persons under the age of 21 may not legally possess marijuana.
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An illegal detention may poison an otherwise lawful search under the “fruit of the poisonous tree"...
March 15, 2023 [View / Download]
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Prolonged Detentions and Seizure of an Item that is Lawful to Possess
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Impoundment and Inventory Searches of an Arrestee’s Vehicle
February 05, 2023 [View / Download]
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Spotlighting Suspect Vehicles
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Did Detectives Dodge a Bullet? When Giving Miranda Rights in English and Spanish, Do it By the Book
December 20, 2022 [View / Download]
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Disturbing the Peace and Refusing to Identify
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Talking an In-Custody Suspect into Changing his Mind Concerning a Prior Invocation
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Fourth Waiver Searches of Vehicles
November 20, 2022 [View / Download]
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Using a roadblock to stop a fleeing suspect is a Fourth Amendment seizure of the person
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Prolonged Detentions and Franks Hearings
November 01, 2022 [View / Download]
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Gang-Tackling an Arrestee and the Issue of Excessive Force; Qualified Immunity as it Relates to...
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Immunity From Civil Liability For Law Enforcement Officers and Agencies
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The Necessary Elements of a DUI/Marijuana Implied Malice Second Degree Murder Case
September 18, 2022 [View / Download]
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The Use of Social Media and a Public Employee’s Freedom of Speech
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An officer asking to check a driver’s license at a DUI checkpoint is lawful
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The Use by Law Enforcement of Excessive Force and Civil Liability
August 14, 2022 [View / Download]
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Prolonged pretextual traffic stops are a violation of the Fourth Amendment.
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Coerced Confessions and Offers of Leniency
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Search Warrants and Probable Cause
July 07, 2022 [View / Download]
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Criminal History and Warrant Checks as a part of the “Mission” of a Traffic Stop.
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Suing federal officers under authority of Bivens v. Six Unknown Fed. Narcotics Agents.
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Miranda as a Prophylactic Rule and the Fifth Amendment:
June 10, 2022 [View / Download]
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The Fourteenth Amendment Due Process and the Use of Deadly Force
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The First Amendment Freedom of Expression and Retaliatory Arrest
May 09, 2022 [View / Download]
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The Warrantless Seizure of an Automobile from Another’s Private Property
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Pat Down for Weapons
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Cruel and Unusual Punishment Imposed by Federal Correctional Officers
April 04, 2022 [View / Download]
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Special Relationships and the Duty to Warn
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Unconscious DUI Suspects and Warrantless Blood Draws
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Turning Movements While Failing to Signal
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The Use of Reasonable Force in Arresting Protestors Engaged in Unlawful Protests
March 15, 2022 [View / Download]
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Medicinal Marijuana and the Due Process Clause
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Forfeiting a Miranda Issue by Not Objecting: The Wearing of Facemasks and the Right to Confrontation.
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Possession of a Controlled Substance While Armed and the Second Amendment Right to Bear Arms
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Forfeiture and Coerced Confessions
February 05, 2022 [View / Download]
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Illegal Detentions and Observations
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An In-Custody Suspect’s Reinitiation of Interrogation after Repeated Invocations
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Use of a Patrol Unit’s Digital In-Car Video System (“DICVS”) in a Police Disciplinary Proceeding
December 15, 2021 [View / Download]
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The Private Search Doctrine and Computerized Hashing Technology
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Sloppy investigations and unprepared prosecutions can result in sanctions and dismissal
December 01, 2021 [View / Download]
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Officers Kneeling on an Arrestee’s Back and Civil Liability
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Detaining Passengers in a Lawfully Stopped Vehicle.The Proof Requirements for Aggravating Circumstances
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Questioning criminal suspects who are not in custody does not require a Miranda advisal or waiver.
October 25, 2021 [View / Download]
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The Seibert Two-Step Interrogation Tactic
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Robbery; the Force or Fear Element
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Interrogating Minors and Beheler Admonishments
September 15, 2021 [View / Download]
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Searches Within the Curtilage of a Home
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Detentions, Consensual Encounters, and Patdowns for Weapons
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Warrantless Searches of Vehicles; Searching Cellphones; Questioning In-Custody Witnesses
August 23, 2021 [View / Download]
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Vehicle Searches and the Odor of Marijuana
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Use of Force in Subduing an Unruly Arrestee / The Use of Force and Civil Liability
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Qualified Immunity, A Suspect’s Right against Self-Incrimination, and Due Process
July 13, 2021 [View / Download]
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Fleeing Misdemeanants and Hot Pursuits by Law Enforcement
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Resisting Arrest
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Body Cavity Searches of Jail Inmates
June 17, 2021 [View / Download]
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Probation Fourth Waiver Searches & Good Faith Belief in the Existence of a Fourth Waiver
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Searches of Vehicles Upon the Arrest of It’s Occupant
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Residential Search Warrants
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Questioning a Detained Suspect and the Necessity for a Miranda Admonishment and Wavier
May 27, 2021 [View / Download]
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Brady Error and Suggestive Pretrial Identifications
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Pen. Code § 148(a)(1); Resisting Arrest Pitchess Motions
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The Community Caretaking Doctrine does not apply to the entry or search of a residence
April 18, 2021 [View / Download]
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Shooting a Fleeing Suspect as a Fourth Amendment Seizure
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Bivens Actions and a Federal Officer’s Civil Liability
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Leaning into a Vehicle as a Fourth Amendment Search
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A Prostitute’s Right to Privacy and P.C. § 632
March 22, 2021 [View / Download]
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Deadly Force, the Fourth Amendment, and State Negligence Allegations
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Police-Citizen Contacts on Less than a Reasonable Suspicion
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Miranda Violations and Civil Liability
March 05, 2021 [View / Download]
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Detentions for Investigation
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Social Media and First Amendment Freedom of Speech Rights
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Witness Tampering
January 17, 2021 [View / Download]
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A Key Insertion into a Vehicle’s Door Lock as a Fourth Amendment Search
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Booking Questions and Minors
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Use of Force in Making an Arrest
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Obstructing a Law Enforcement Officer in the Performance of his Duties
December 30, 2020 [View / Download]
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Searches of Vehicles for Marijuana
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The Use of a Ruse by Law Enforcement
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Private Person Searches
November 30, 2020 [View / Download]
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Detentions for Investigation; Bulges in a Person’s Clothing
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Marijuana Vehicle Searches; California’s Marijuana Laws vs. Federal Law and more...
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Warrantless Entries into Residence; The Attenuation Doctrine and Attenuation of the Taint: Fruit of ...
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P.C. § 1538.5 Motions and Illegal Detentions: P.C. § 148(a)(1) When Perpetrated During an Unlawful ...
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Prison Visitors’ Strip Searches
November 11, 2020 [View / Download]
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Writ of Habeas Corpus; Miranda Waivers; Incomplete Admonishments; Confessions & Involuntariness of ...
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Kelly Test Requirements and Dog Scent Trailing Evidence; Foundational Requirements for Dog Scent Traili
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Brady v. Maryland and Undisclosed Impeachment Evidence: Statutorily Protected Confidential Records...
January 01, 2018 [View / Download]
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Search Warrants and the Seizure of Electronic Devices
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P.C. § 148(a)(1) and Refusing to Identify Oneself
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The Danger Doctrine and Civil Liability; Leaving a DV Victim in more danger than found; Qualified Im...