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Getting a search warrant begins in a police department and ends with a specific, restricted list of items allowed to be seized on a specific property.
At any time, police may approach a person and ask questions. Police may suspect involvement in a crime, but may lack knowledge of any "specific and articulable facts" [9] that would justify a detention or arrest, and hope to obtain these facts from the questioning. The person approached is not required to identify themselves or answer any other ...
Kansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Marla Luckert appears uncomfortable with how far federal courts have gone in allowing evidence from unconstitutional searches.
Police misconduct is inappropriate conduct and illegal actions taken by police officers in connection with their official duties. Types of misconduct include among others: sexual offences, coerced false confession, intimidation, false arrest, false imprisonment, falsification of evidence, spoliation of evidence, police perjury, witness tampering, police brutality, police corruption, racial ...
When police stop and search a pedestrian, this is commonly known as a stop and frisk. When police stop an automobile, this is known as a traffic stop. If the police stop a motor vehicle on minor infringements in order to investigate other suspected criminal activity, this is known as a pretextual stop. Additional rules apply to stops that occur ...
If the police search your phone without a search warrant or qualifying exigent ... The judge can decide to toss out any evidence and information gathered from an illegal search. Show comments.
When police confiscate [2] or destroy a citizen's photographs or recordings of officers' misconduct, the police's act of destroying the evidence may be prosecuted as an act of evidence tampering, if the recordings being destroyed are potential evidence in a criminal or regulatory investigation of the officers themselves. [9]
The Supreme Court ruled in 2014 on whether a person’s cellphone can be searched by police officers without a warrant. Missouri and Kansas also have there own laws. Here’s what they say.