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"n this case, the search of a robbery suspect's backpack while he was being questioned yielded a ring, a digital camera, and other items. The police warrantlessly searched the digital phone, discovering a photo of the suspect next to a firearm later determined to have been stolen. This led to two convictions: one for the stolen property and one for carrying a firearm without a license."

"The Iowa Supreme Court has thrown out the drunken driving conviction of a northwest Iowa man, saying a police stop based on an anonymous tip violated the man's constitutional protection against improper searches."

"DNA ancestry searches can now identify most white Americans. Here's why that's legally questionable"

"Two appeals from criminal defendants could have far-reaching effects on when a person's private holdings can be subjected to intrusion without clear probable cause or a valid search warrant."

STEVENS POINT, Wis. - Police launched an extensive search Sunday for a missing Wisconsin college student using tracking dogs and about 150 volunteers. Eric Duffey, who's originally from Fitchburg and attends the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, was last seen about 1:15 a.m. Saturday leaving Joe's Bar in downtown Stevens Point.

The Brooklyn DA's Office is probing whether an NYPD cop stole $1,300 from a construction worker while searching him in ­Coney Island, officials said. The investigation was launched after a video emerged showing the unidentified officer putting his hand into the pocket of Lamard Joye and pulling out what looks like papers as the Brooklyn man is ­being held up against a fence shortly after midnight on Sept.

"The scope of the warrant was so expansive in time and geography that it had the potential to gather data on tens of thousands of Minnesotans. The technique has caught the attention of civil liberties lawyers who worry such warrants - deployed increasingly by police in the Twin Cities and around the country - are a digital dragnet ripe for abuse, and that judges may not realize the technical details or broad scope of the searches they're authorizing."

"The highest court in Massachusetts ruled Tuesday that a police officer is not justified in stopping and searching an automobile merely because he smells the presence of marijuana. The Supreme Judicial Court took up the case of Benjamin Cruz to clarify the legal impact of a 2008 voter referendum that had decriminalized possession of less than one ounce of pot in the Bay State."

"The trooper was given consent to search the vehicle."  Way to know your rights criminal-dude!

"In the case of Baltimore, the consent decree comes months after a scathing DOJ report in August that said the unconstitutional practices of some of the city's 2,600 officers led to disproportionate rates of stops, searches and arrests of black residents, and excessive use of force against juveniles and those with mental health disabilities."

New York (CNN) -- Police and federal agents were expected Friday to continue searching in a Lower Manhattan basement for clues in the more than 30-year disappearance of six-year-old Etan Patz, the boy who became the face of missing children in America. Etan Patz disappeared May 25, 1979, a block from his home in the city's SoHo neighborhood.

Police are searching for a man who robbed the Walmart Neighborhood Market near 90th and Lake at knifepoint Monday night.

In a precedent-setting decision, a federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled Thursday that random body searches of clothed women prisoners--including of their breast and genital areas--by male guards at a Washington prison violated the Constitution's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. The U.S.

This guy is great.

GREAT BEND - The girlfriend of the man arrested as a person of interest in the death of 14-year-old Alicia DeBolt is "heartbroken," a family member said today. Jeff Brown said his sister has lived with Adam Longoria for six or seventh months. Longoria, 36, was taken into custody earlier today.

Police are searching for the person who beat a mentally disabled man to death in Lincoln.