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Police Law in a Nutshell: Home Searches (Part 3) – Warrant Searches
There are only three lawful ways to enter a home: with consent, exigent circumstances, or with a warrant. This installment of Police Law in a Nutshell offers a brief explanation of warrant searches. Previous installments covered consent and exigent circumstances...
Police Law in a Nutshell: Home Searches (Part 2) – Exigent Circumstances
There are only three lawful ways to enter a home: consent, exigent circumstances, or a warrant. This installment of Police Law in a Nutshell will briefly explain exigent circumstances. A previous installment covered consent searches, and a future post will discuss...
Police Law in a Nutshell: Home Searches (Part 1) – Consent
There are only three ways to lawfully search a home: Consent, Exigency, or Warrant. This installment of Police Law in a Nutshell will briefly explain Consent, while future posts will cover Exigency and Warrant separately. Home Searches 1 - Consent Consent must be...
Police Law in a Nutshell: Asserting Right to Silence or Right to an Attorney
Officers know when to advise suspects of their Miranda rights, but are sometimes unsure what actions to take if a suspect invokes the right to silence or the right to an attorney. Let’s try to grasp it all in a nutshell. First of all, just a quick refresher that...
Police Law in a Nutshell: Warrantless Searches of Vehicles
Before discussing situations where the law allows a warrantless vehicle search, we must keep in mind the Search Warrant Rule: any search conducted without a warrant is presumptively unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment. To overcome this presumption, the prosecution...
Former Maine Public Safety Commissioner Anne Jordan Joins Dirigo Safety
Auburn, ME – Anne Jordan, former Commissioner of Public Safety for the State of Maine has accepted a position at Dirigo Safety as a member of the policy review team and adjunct instructor. According to Scot Mattox, Dirigo Safety CEO, “Attorney Jordan’s extensive...