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Because we live in a country that relies on an adversarial system of criminal justice, you can count on law enforcement to do everything it can to punish you as much as possible. To do this, police and prosecutors try to get all the evidence against you that they can

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For police to search you for evidence or arrest you for a crime, they need a search warrant or an arrest warrant. If they don’t have a warrant, then their search or their seizure has to fall within a limited set of exceptions to the warrant requirement. For example, if

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In our last blog post, we recounted how law enforcement could easily manipulate eyewitnesses to make them give damning testimony against you if you’ve been charged with a crime. One way that this can happen is through photo arrays – a binder or computer database of mugshots. If these photos

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In a recent blog post, we asked one of the most important questions in criminal law today: How reliable are eyewitnesses? Unfortunately, the answer is “not very.” However, the lack of reliability in an eyewitness only begins to tell the story. This is because, in addition to being inherently unable

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In one of our recent blog posts, we covered Miranda warnings and your right to remain silent when questioned by the police. An important aspect of Miranda warnings, though, is that they require you to be in custody for them to be given. Like a lot of things in the

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