The Roberts Court has shown two jurisprudential preferences. One is for protecting the freedom of speech, earning it a reputation as perhaps the most speech-protective Supreme Court in history. The ...
Recently, a judge in the Eastern District of New York announced a new legal standard for probable cause in gun cases in New York. Essentially, the court concluded that a significant increase in ...
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has handed down a new case, Commonwealth v. White, that considers this question: When the police have strong reason to believe that a suspect committed a ...
Suppose police in Gotham City were investigating a murder, suspected the killer was the Joker, but lacked probable cause to search his hideout. Eager to solve the crime and with the clock of public ...
Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg took aim at local courts this week, calling an alarming uptick in findings of no probable cause in more than 3,000 court cases a waste of resources and a public ...