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The Fourth Amendment is the most constitutional protection for people who are being investigated for a crime. However, if the Fourth Amendment has been around since 1792, why are the oldest cases that deal with it from the 1960s? The answer takes us from the American Revolution through the First

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A federal law that could have significant repercussions on your privacy and your Fourth Amendment rights is in a tricky state of limbo in the U.S. Congress. The N.S.A. and Section 702 At issue are the National Security Agency’s (NSA) warrantless surveillance program and the so-called Section 702 law, both

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The Maine Supreme Court has made an important distinction regarding one of the most important parts of the state’ssexual crimeslaws:Indecent conductunder17-A M.R.S. §854(1)(B). What Happened in Maine v. Legassie In late 2013, 21-year-old Andrew Legassie sent sexually-explicit images over Facebook to a handful of girls, who were then between the

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The upcoming Supreme Court case Carpenter v. U.S. has gotten lots of attention recently. It is, after all, likely to be the biggest criminal defense case of the next decade because it might put a long overdue limitation on the third party doctrine or even overrule it, altogether. One of

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In our last blog post, we examined the amicus curiae briefs that were filed for the defense team in Carpenter v. U.S., what is likely to be the most important criminal defense case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court in at least the next few years. However, not all of

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