The Hawaii Supreme Court has held that providing falsified polygraph results to a suspect poses an unacceptable risk of influencing a suspect to confess regardless of guilt AND IS DEEMED PER SE COERCIVE. Read More
Mahalo
Border Agents Can’t Search Smartphones And Laptops Without ‘Reasonable Suspicion,’ Federal Court Rules
In a 48-page decision, U.S. district judge Denise Casper ruled that border officials need justifiable reasons to search a person’s electronic devices, which should be balanced against the privacy interests of travelers. Read More
Defense Attorney Lullaby
From now on, all investigative activities, including investigative
inquiries, conducted by law enforcement during a traffic stop, must be reasonably related to the purpose of that stop or have an independent constitutional justification. Read More
Giving it 200%
BOTH the 200-percent rule AND the shift-to-I rule apply when a sentencing court imposes consecutive sentences on offenses that arise out of the “same criminal episode.” Read More
Preventing Psychosis
Interventions to Prevent Psychosis (“An impending psychotic break can be identified and prevented if it is recognized early and appropriate steps are taken to head it off.”) Here is the meat of the NYT article: Psychosis, which is not a disease but a symptom of a brain illness, usually begins in late adolescence and young… Read More