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By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

The week’s edition is now available available here. Notable in this relatively light edition is the Supreme Court’s decision in Virginia v. Moore. The holding in Moore is relatively straight forward: where a police officer violates state law in making an arrest and, during a search incident to that arrest, finds evidence of unlawful conduct, the Fourth Amendment is not offended. Orin Kerr gives his thoughts on Virginia v. Moore. In other SCOTUS news, the Court heard oral arguments in Giles v. California. University of Michigan Law School’s Prof Richard Friedman reflects on the oral arguments in Giles, the SCOTUS?s latest examination of the Confrontation Clause & related post-Crawford issues like forfeiture by wrongdoing, here, here, here & here...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on April 27, 2008 (boomark / email).