Archive for the ‘Search & Seizure’ Category

You Just Got Pwned!

Monday, July 13th, 2009

Most of my writing lately has had to be devoted to motions.  As California courts increasingly ignore the law, it seems more important — I’m not sure why, perhaps at least for future generations, sort of “a la the Declaration of Independence” — to document things, rather than try to wing it with the more ephemeral oral arguments.

In the course of working on a motion, I ran across this new argument, which can only be titled “You Just Got Pwned!”

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Once Upon A Time: A Tale Of Search & Seizure

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

Once upon a time, in the land that would one day become the United States of America, law enforcement officers of the King of England were allowed by the King to stop and search citizens of the land without the need for specific warrants.

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