The Ohio Supreme Court ruled yesterday that police cannot search a lawfully parked vehicle without a warrant solely because a person they arrested had recently been inside it. The case came about when Quayshaun Leak was arrested based on a warrant from a domestic violence incident. Police located Leak in a legally parked car near his …
The Ohio Supreme Court ruled yesterday that a trial court should have suppressed drug evidence seized when a township officer stopped a driver on the interstate. The officer did not have the authority to make such a traffic stop under Ohio law. The Court found the traffic stop, the search that located the drugs and the …
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that when police install a GPS monitoring unit on a person’s body after he or she has been convicted of a crime, this amounts to a search under the 4th Amendment, USA Today reports. At issue in Grady v. North Carolina is a law that requires convicted sex offenders to …
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