A state Supreme Court justice in New York City has suppressed evidence in a grand larceny case because a search warrant was not executed within the required 10-day period.

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An Irondequoit man originally facing felony weapons charges that could have sent him to prison for as much as 25 years ended up admitting to a relatively minor offense with no jail time after the judge in the case suppressed ...

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A Los Angeles-based tech company is resisting a federal demand for more than 1.3 million IP addresses to identify visitors to a website set up to coordinate protests on Inauguration Day — a request whose breadth the company says violates ...

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An Erie County Court judge has upheld a lower court ruling suppressing evidence in a drug case even though police had obtained a search warrant. Defendant Zachary N. Williford was charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, second-degree ...

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Amazon Echo has been around for a few years now. But last month was the first time it was reported that data from one of these devices was sought by the prosecution in a murder investigation. For those unfamiliar with ...

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OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Canadian police can conduct a limited search of a suspect’s mobile phone when they are arrested without getting a search warrant, but they must follow strict rules, a divided Supreme Court of Canada ruled Thursday. In ...

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U.S. District Court, WDNY Search Warrant Scope of Search — Good Faith Reliance United States v. Miller 13-CR-6036L Judge Payson Background: The defendant was charged in a three-count indictment involving the possession and production of child pornography that had been ...

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New York State Court of Appeals Search Warrant Confidential Informant — Probable Cause People v. Chisholm No. 133 Memorandum Background: The defendant had been convicted of multiple drug and weapon possession charges after a search of his home revealed marijuana ...

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U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Search Warrant — Overly Broad Pornographic Images — Plain View U.S. v. Galpin 11-4808-cr Judges Jacobs, Winter and Swain Background: The defendant entered a conditional guilty plea of several counts of production ...

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that police usually must try to obtain a search warrant from a judge before ordering blood tests for drunken-driving suspects. The justices sided with a Missouri man who was subjected to a ...

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The killing of a family dog during the execution of a search warrant in Monroe County was not an unconstitutional property seizure in violation of the Fourth Amendment, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has ruled. The ...

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Oral arguments in two Fourth Amendment cases before the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday focused on a common question: just what does a dog’s nose know? In both cases, criminal defendants challenged the use of trained narcotic detection dogs who ...

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