Recent Posts in Constitutional Rights Protection Category
Posted on Feb 15, 2012 By Minneapolis Criminal Lawyer
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in late January that police attachments of GPS-tracking devices to automobiles are considered searches under the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution in the ...
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Posted on Jan 25, 2012 By Minneapolis Criminal Lawyer
On Monday, the US Supreme Court decided a case that reinforced the importance of the 4th Amendment to the US Constitution. The Court ruled that the police must have a search warrant to use a GPS ...
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Posted on Dec 27, 2011 By Minneapolis Criminal Lawyer
In my last blog post I discussed a recent Minnesota Court of Appeals decision dealing with what police conduct constitutes a stop or seizure . The Court of Appeals in that case did not discuss what ...
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Posted on Dec 18, 2011 By Minnesota Criminal Lawyer
There is hope that the 4th Amendment still has meaning. The Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled recently in the matter of the State of Minnesota vs. Michael Anthony Clark that a seizure has not occurred ...
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