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  2. Police Cannot Seize Property Indefinitely After an Arrest ...

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    "The plaintiffs have alleged that the seizures at issue, though lawful at their inception, later came to unreasonably interfere with their protected possessory interests in their own property ...

  3. Search and seizure - Wikipedia

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    Dareton police search the vehicle of a suspected drug smuggler in Wentworth, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, near the border with Victoria.. Search and seizure is a procedure used in many civil law and common law legal systems by which police or other authorities and their agents, who, suspecting that a crime has been committed, commence a search of a person's property and ...

  4. Warrantless searches in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Warrantless searches are searches and seizures conducted without court-issued search warrants.. In the United States, warrantless searches are restricted under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, part of the Bill of Rights, which states, "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not ...

  5. Plain view doctrine - Wikipedia

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    However, as with the application of this doctrine elsewhere, the plain view doctrine only justifies a seizure of evidence or contraband that is in plain view, and it does not justify a further search. In United States v. Carey, [24] a detective was searching a computer for evidence of drug trafficking. When he opened an image file that depicted ...

  6. Oklahoma authorities seize 36 tons of illegally grown ... - AOL

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    Attorney general's office task force seizes barn full of drug before it could enter the black market.

  7. Open-fields doctrine - Wikipedia

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    Open fields near Lisbon, Ohio.. The open-fields doctrine (also open-field doctrine or open-fields rule), in the U.S. law of criminal procedure, is the legal doctrine that a "warrantless search of the area outside a property owner's curtilage" does not violate the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

  8. Writ of assistance - Wikipedia

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    Police Powers — Search and Seizure in Criminal Law Enforcement. Ottawa, Ontario: Minister of Supply and Services Canada, 1983. ISBN 0-662-52277-X. Knollenberg, Bernhard. Growth of the American Revolution, 1766–1775. New York: Free Press, 1975. ISBN 0-02-917110-5. MacDonald, William. Documentary Source Book of American History, 1606–1913 ...

  9. Private prison operator GEO looking to end contracts for 2 ...

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    Christopher Ferreira, corporate relations director for the GEO Group, told The Oklahoman on Thursday that his company was proud of the long-standing public-private partnership with the state ...