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Constructive possession [1] is a legal fiction to describe a situation in which an individual has actual control over chattels or real property without actually having physical control of the same assets. At law, a person with constructive possession stands in the same legal position as someone with actual possession.
Most mobile phones are smuggled in by prison staff, who often do not have to go through security as rigorously as visitors.Security of staff is often less intense because this would be time-consuming on the part of the staff, unionized prison employees are paid for this time, and it would thus increase the overall cost of operations, [6] also, prison staff are often reluctant to diligently ...
This led to the classic articulation of the mere evidence rule, which stated that the Fourth Amendment allowed only search and seizure of instrumentalities, fruits of the crime, and contraband, and that mere evidence could not be searched or seized. [4] The mere evidence rule has been praised as a valuable protection of individual privacy.
Possession of contraband in a correctional institution is a class D felony in the state of Iowa, which is punishable by five years in prison. Rocha admitted to four counts of possession.
Where is Josh Duggar from '19 Kids and Counting' right now? Here's all there is to know about his arrest, conviction, and prison sentence.
The doctrine only authorizes the seizure of contraband or evidence; it does not authorize a further search or additional investigation. [15] Therefore, if investigators do not have enough evidence to meet the probable cause requirement, they may not even conduct a relatively nonintrusive search to establish probable cause.
“I just got involved in stuff over my head, man. Got involved in a couple of killings. I left my .357 Magnum in Mexico City, and I left some dead people on the beach,” he said.
Minnesota v. Dickerson, 508 U.S. 366 (1993), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States.The Court unanimously held that, when a police officer who is conducting a lawful patdown search for weapons feels something that plainly is contraband, the object may be seized even though it is not a weapon.