In our last blog post, we started talking about a recent Supreme Court case that made a massive expansion to one of the exceptions to the exclusionary rule. Here, we’ll go over exactly why the Court decided the case the way it did. The Attenuation Exception in Utah v. Strieff
In many of our recent blog posts, we’ve talked about the exclusionary rule and the Fourth Amendment. The Fourth Amendment prohibits searches and seizures of your property and privacy that are “unreasonable.” If this prohibition gets violated by the police or other law enforcement agents, then the evidence that they
If you’ve ever watched a courtroom drama or TV show like Law and Order, then you’ve seen at least a dozen objections being made in a trial. Unfortunately, many of these shows paint courtroom objections in a negative light, with the attorney raising the objection trying to keep relevant evidence
In our last blog post, we covered how state constitutions can protect the same individual rights that the United States Constitution protects. On closer inspection, the fact that a state constitution can, for example, prohibit unreasonable searches and seizures does not make it duplicative with the federal constitution, which also
One of the biggest jobs of a criminal defense attorney is to protect you from unreasonable searches, or improper seizures. Your right to be free from these government intrusions into your life is guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, in the Fourth Amendment. However, as a resident of Maine, you are
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