Know Your Rights

11/05/2014

A wonderful look into the specifics of consent searches

30/04/2014

30/04/2014

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The latest from Your Rights (). Students hoping to inform the public on their right to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures. America

29/04/2014

[by Ed]

? when you pull up to a DUI checkpoint!

Know your rights when talking to a police officer: http://policecrimes.com/police.html There's no law that requires you to talk to a police officer at anytim...

25/04/2014

Ever Wonder About the "famous" Stop and Frisk?

Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968), was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court which held that the Fourth Amendment prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures is not violated when a police officer stops a suspect on the street and frisks him or her without probable cause to arrest, if the police officer has a reasonable suspicion that the person has committed, is committing, or is about to commit a crime and has a reasonable belief that the person "may be armed and presently dangerous." (http://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/392/1)

A Cleveland detective (McFadden), on a downtown beat which he had been patrolling for many years, observed two strangers (petitioner and another man, Chilton) on a street corner. He saw them proceed alternately back and forth along an identical route, pausing to stare in the same store window, which…

25/04/2014

The Fourth amendment says "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."