Category: Criminal Defense

In our last blog post, we ended with a real-life situation from a Maine Supreme Court case, Maine v. Blier, which provides an excellent example of how the wide spectrum of possible police detentions makes talking about unreasonable seizures under the Fourth Amendment very difficult. What Happened in Maine v.

The Fourth Amendment, one of the keystones of all criminal defense work, prohibits searches and seizures that are “unreasonable.” In the past on our blog, we’ve gone time and time again into the search aspect of the Fourth Amendment, from what searches are to the third party doctrine to the

In our recent blog posts, we’ve started delving into the maddeningly nuanced law of seizures by law enforcement officers. Crucially, the Fourth Amendment requires a police seizure to be “reasonable.” If it isn’t, then any evidence that is obtained from the seizure will be excluded from trial under the exclusionary

Richard Posner, one of the most important judges of the past fifty years – perhaps even more important than some of those who have sat on the Supreme Court of the United States – has suddenly declared that he is retiring. For better or for worse, Posner’s influence has been

This is the second and final blog post that deals with a recent viral video, showing a nurse in Utah getting violently arrested for refusing to let a detective perform a blood alcohol content (BAC) test on an unconscious driver. In our first post, we discussed how the BAC test