By Hayes Hunt and Calli Varner According to a recent decision by the Third Circuit, police are required to get a warrant prior to attaching a GPS tracker to a suspect’s vehicle. The Third Circuit’s decision in United States v.…
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3rd Circuit Slams the Car Door on Warrantless GPS Tracking
Tagged with: 4th Amendment, Fourth Amendment, GPS Tracking Devices, Katzin, Probable Cause, Search Warrant, Warrantless Search & Seizure
Posted in Prosecution & Defense
Posted in Prosecution & Defense
Is a Curious Police Dog on Your Porch a Search under the 4th Amendment? – SCOTUS Answers in Florida v. Jardines
By Hayes Hunt and Michael Zabel Let’s say one day you observe your local police officer walk a drug-sniffing police dog up to the front door of your neighbor’s house. The dog sniffs around outside, then gives a positive signal…
Tagged with: 4th Amendment, curtilage, Florida v. Jardines, SCOTUS, Search Warrant
Posted in Prosecution & Defense
Posted in Prosecution & Defense
Facebook “Friends”, 4th Amendment Privacy & Probable Cause
By: Hayes Hunt and Brian Kint A recent court decision has added support to the idea that there is no privacy on the internet. In United States v. Meregildo, defendant Melvin Colon moved to suppress evidence seized from his Facebook…
Tagged with: 4th Amendment, Facebook, Hayes Hunt, Probable Cause, Reasonable Expectation of Privacy, Search Warrant, Social Media Law
Posted in Social Media & Law
Posted in Social Media & Law
Search Warrant Protocol – What Every Company Should Do to Prepare
There are many ways by which the Government, federal or state, can appear at a company’s doorstep. The most disruptive and unnerving is when government agents show up in the company’s lobby to serve and execute a search warrant. Is…
