Blog Posts in July, 2011

• Posted By Scott Hughes 9-Jul-2011

  California Death Penalty Repeal Bill Passes Assembly Public Safety Committee

  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 life imprisonment without the possibility of ...

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• Posted By Scott Hughes 2-Jul-2011

  Supreme Court Agrees to Decide Whether GPS Tracking Constitutes a Search

  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 ultimately led to the seizure of 100 kilograms of cocaine. ...

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