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Arizona
Oct 2023
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Fund for Empowerment v. Phoenix, City of
Fund for Empowerment is a challenge to the City of Phoenix鈥檚 practice of conducting sweeps of encampments without notice, issuing citations to unsheltered people for camping and sleeping on public property when they have no place else to go, and confiscating and destroying their property without notice or process.
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34 Reforming Police Cases
U.S. Supreme Court
Jun 2013
Reforming Police
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Maryland v. King
Whether collecting and analyzing DNA samples from arrestees without a warrant or consent violates the Fourth Amendment.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Jun 2013
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Maryland v. King
Whether collecting and analyzing DNA samples from arrestees without a warrant or consent violates the Fourth Amendment.
Court Case
Mar 2013
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Smart Justice
Morrow v. City of Tenaha, et al.
Beginning in 2006, under the guise of looking for criminal activity, the police in Tenaha, Texas stopped, searched, and often seized property from Blacks and Latinos traveling through town with no suspicion of criminal activity.
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Court Case
Mar 2013
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Smart Justice
Morrow v. City of Tenaha, et al.
Beginning in 2006, under the guise of looking for criminal activity, the police in Tenaha, Texas stopped, searched, and often seized property from Blacks and Latinos traveling through town with no suspicion of criminal activity.
U.S. Supreme Court
Feb 2013
Reforming Police
Criminal Law Reform
Salinas v. Texas
Whether the Fifth Amendment prohibits the prosecution from commenting at trial on a defendant鈥檚 silence when questioned by the police prior to Miranda warnings.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Feb 2013
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Criminal Law Reform
Salinas v. Texas
Whether the Fifth Amendment prohibits the prosecution from commenting at trial on a defendant鈥檚 silence when questioned by the police prior to Miranda warnings.
U.S. Supreme Court
Sep 2012
Reforming Police
Florida v. Harris
Whether the police may conduct a warrantless search for drugs based solely on an alert by a drug-sniffing dog without any other evidence of the dog's reliability so long as the dog has been "trained" or "certified."
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U.S. Supreme Court
Sep 2012
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Florida v. Harris
Whether the police may conduct a warrantless search for drugs based solely on an alert by a drug-sniffing dog without any other evidence of the dog's reliability so long as the dog has been "trained" or "certified."
U.S. Supreme Court
Aug 2012
Reforming Police
Bailey v. United States
Whether someone who has left the immediate vicinity of a house that is about to be searched may be seized by the police without probable cause.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Aug 2012
Reforming Police
Bailey v. United States
Whether someone who has left the immediate vicinity of a house that is about to be searched may be seized by the police without probable cause.