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After stopping a person based upon the reasonable belief that the person might be engaged in unlawful activity, or following a routine encounter such as a traffic stop, the police in the United States may perform a cursory search of the persons outer clothing for their own safety. Terry v. Ohio. [3]
Nevada law, which requires a person to "identify himself or herself", apparently requires only that the person state their name. Texas law requires a person to provide their name, residence address and date of birth if lawfully arrested and asked by police. (A detained person or witness of a crime is not required to provide any identifying ...
Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents, 403 U.S. 388 (1971), was a case in which the US Supreme Court ruled that an implied cause of action existed for an individual whose Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizures had been violated by the Federal Bureau of Narcotics.
The trial court denied the motion, and Bostick pleaded guilty to trafficking in cocaine but specifically reserved the right to appeal against the denial of his suppression motion. The intermediate appellate court affirmed, [2] but the Florida Supreme Court ruled that the search violated the Fourth Amendment because it took place on a bus.
Free Our Vote hopes to restore voting rights to more than 400,000 people in this year’s election mostly in the south and southwest, and expand to nine more states in 2025.
Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806 (1975), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that criminal defendants have a constitutional right to refuse counsel and represent themselves in state criminal proceedings.
The decades-old case of Katherine and Sheila Lyon, two young sisters who disappeared in 1975 after visiting a Maryland shopping center, resurfaced, with authorities initiating a new search.
A man serving an ongoing prison sentence for the 1999 murder of his intimate partner will legally remain known as James Covington, after a judge denied his latest petition to change his first name ...