In Navarette, the United States Supreme Court recently held that an anonymous informant’s tip that a certain truck “ran her off the road” was sufficient to provide reasonable suspicion of DUI to support a traffic stop. The opinion is problematic as it will have far...
Month: April 2014
The Future Of Our “Rights”: Punishment For Exercising The Right To Withhold Consent From Warrantless Searches?
A Minnesota appellate court recently appears to have claimed that the state may criminalize a person’s refusal to consent to a warrantless search if the officer could have hypothetically obtained a warrant. You can read the opinion here. This is dangerous. It has long...
Domestic Violence and the Home in Washington State (PART 2)
In part 1, we discussed what is required for law enforcement to make a warrantless entry into the home. The state must prove each of the following elements of the emergency aid exception to the warrant requirement: The police officer subjectively believed that...