Yes, the Philadelphia police can lie to you in some situations. A United States Supreme Court ruling in Frazier v. Cupp allowed police to...
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PA Sup. Ct. Held Consent Cannot Be Threat Based
Consent to a blood test cannot lawfully be based on the threat of enhanced criminal penalties.
Is the government trying to take your stuff in a forfeiture case?
Forfeiture Cases Are Daunting A forfeiture case can be daunting for litigants, especially considering the fact that the standard of proof...
Police Need a Warrant to Search a Personal Computer
On June 5, 2015, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court decided the case of Commonwealth v. Sodomsky, 2015 PA Super 133 (Pa. Super. Ct. 2015),...
Dog Sniff During Traffic Stop Held Unconstitutional
The following story is one I wrote, which was originally published in the April 2015 edition of Upon Further Review, a publication of the...
PA Sup. Ct. Refutes Car Search During Illegal Detention
Just a week after the United States Supreme Court suppressed evidence discovered as a result of an dog sniff because police unjustifiably...
SCOTUS Rules GPS Monitoring Constitutes a Search
In Grady v. North Carolina, 575 U.S. ____ (2015) (March 30, 2015), the United States Supreme Court has granted certiorari on whether the...
Search of Digital Information on a Cell Phone Cannot be Justified Under the Search Incident to Arrest Doctrine
The following story is one I wrote, and which was originally published in the July 2014 edition of Upon Further Review, a publication of...
SCOTUS Hears Cell Phone Searches Incident to Arrest
The following story is one I wrote, and which was originally published in the March 2014 edition of Upon Further Review, a publication of...
Nervousness, Reaching Justify Suspicion for Weapons Search
Criminal lawyers in Philadelphia need to be aware of cases where police claim their clients appeared nervous and made furtive movements....
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