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When Police Are Thieves: forfeiture law update
You might assume, as any rational person would, that if the police illegally stop your vehicle and then illegally search it, and find cash and a small amount of cocaine, that the police would not be able to use the illegal search to justify forfeiture of your car. You...
SITSA Act: adding a new penalty group to federal drug charges
On June 8, 2017, Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Dianne Feinstein (D-California) revealed a proposed bill they had drafted together, clumsily named the “Stop the Importation and Trafficking of Synthetic Analogues Act of 2017” or Senate Bill 1327, or SITSA Act....
Can the Police Search…?: Quick Answers to Search Questions
Summer has begun, and Denton, like many “college towns” now seems to have far fewer people around and cars on the road. I drive by Texas Woman’s University and by the University of North Texas several times a week (the former everyday on my way home from my office),...
New Drugs and NIST
On June 6, 2017, one of the nation’s largest databases of chemical signatures, NIST, announced that it had added 25,000 chemical signatures to its already massive database of 240,000 signatures. NIST stores the molecular “fingerprints” of various natural and man-made...
Drugs In Cars
Most arrests for drug offenses do not arise from a carefully planned surveillance operation where police have sought warrants to place GPS trackers on vehicles, or collected trash outside the residence to go through later at the police station. In fact, most drug...
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