Blog Posts in July, 2011
Posted on Jul 9, 2011 By Scott Hughes
This week, bill SB 490 passed the Assembly Public Safety Committee. This bill would be the first step in changing the death penalty as we understand it in California, replacing the death penalty with ...
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Posted on Jul 2, 2011 By Scott Hughes
IN U.S. v. Jones, police placed a global positioning system (GPS) on Jones' vehicle without first obtaining a search warrant. The GPS allowed law enforcement to track Jones' movements, which ...
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