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Correcting Common Myths About Fentanyl: Fentanyl-Laced Marijuana
Reports of fentanyl-laced marijuana have ranged from the appearance of credibility to the obviously incredible. For example, Spectrum News in New York warned its readers of “marijuana laced with fentanyl” and included several Monroe County Sheriff’s Office employees...
Correcting Common Myths About Fentanyl: Impossibility of Incidental Exposure Overdose
It is not an overstatement to suggest the appearance of fentanyl on our streets has caused panic of an unparalleled level among Americans. This panic is warranted to large extent, insofar as fentanyl is exponentially more likely to produce overdose and fatal overdose...
Curlee v. State (Playground in case was not “open to the public” for purposes of Drug Free Zone enhancement)
Occasionally, they do get it right… Curlee v. State (PD-20-0624-20)(Texas Court of Criminal Appeals)(April 14, 2021): a playground on the premises of a church which is surrounded by chain-link fence and padlock that was not completely locked (but nevertheless showed...
The (Now Speedily Dissolving) Fourth Amendment
It is no secret that the Fourth Amendment, which enshrines the “right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures” has been dying a slow death for about the past twenty years. Slowly, but...
Hotels and the Fourth Amendment: Tilghman v. State
Until June 2021, it was well-established that a person staying in a hotel had a reasonable expectation of privacy in the rented room. Equally well-established was that this expectation of privacy was “[n]o less than a tenant of a house.” Thus, a person could expect to...
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