Criminal Law

"Police not required to show search warrant right away"
"Police not required to show search warrant right away": Today in The Providence (R.I.) Journal, Edward Fitzpatrick has an article that begins, "On television, when the police are going to search a house, they immediately show a search warrant to the homeowner...

Search of Defendant's Person Several Miles Away from Her Residence Was Improper
U.S. v. Young, 2008 WL 313436 (2/5/08) (unpub'd) - The 10th reverses a denial of a motion to suppress. The search warrant only authorized the search of the defendant's person in the course of searching her residence...

FLDS Church Is Challenging Search Warrant; Wants Searh of Temple Banned
Attorneys for the FLDS Church have filed papers challenging the continuing execution of the search warrant at the group's YFZ Ranch near San Angelo, Texas. Some 401 children have been removed from the ranch and placed into temporary state custody...

Texas polygamist raid based on defective warrant
Grits is all over the story that the search warrant and accompanying affidavit used to enter and search the polygamist compound headed by the now convicted Warren Jeffs may be illegal...

Seizure of defendant's house for seven hours to procure new SW was not unreasonable
Police came with a search warrant to look on defendant's computer for child porn, and the warrant was for number 68. After they got in number 68, they found that it was not defendant's place, and there was another unit number 68A...

Search and seizure - Particularized description of place to be search adequately supported the warrant in spite of incorrect address: FENTRESS v. COM. (COA 6/27/2008)
FENTRESS v. COM.CRIMINAL: Search and seizure - Particularized description of place to be search adequately supported the warrant in spite of incorrect address2006-CA-002453PUBLISHED: AFFIRMINGPANEL: CAPERTON PRESIDING; LAMBERT, THOMPSON CONCURGRAYSON COUNTYDATE RENDERED: 6/27/2008Deficiencies in the address in the warrant and the amount of pseudoephedrine bought by him was different than what was contained in the affidavit for the search warrant served as the basis of attacking the search...

Strip Search Class Action Settled for $900,000
Strip Search Class Action Settled for $900,000

Strip-Search Lawsuit Settled for $1.1 Million
Strip-Search Lawsuit Settled for $1.1 Million

Canadian Government
seeks new law enabling them to search your laptop

Two Kentucky Counties
settle strip search class action lawsuits

Baltimore Strip Search Class Action
Judge Gives Go-ahead

Illegal Strip Search
Lawsuit Reaches $2.1 Million Settlement