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‘Search Warrants Rot Law Enforcement’: Paper

The Crime Report

Moreover, as part of the War on Drugs, the Supreme Court has given law enforcement the weapons necessary to declare war on certain communities, namely areas demarcated or branded as “high crime areas” — and thus allow for easier search warrant approval. She also suggests requiring higher justification for no-kick entry warrants.

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SCOTUS dispatch: government lawyer grilled for an hour on meaning of federal corruption statute

JURIST

Gijs de Bra is a JURIST Assistant Editor and SCOTUS special correspondent, and a 2L at Cornell Law School. That question kept Colleen Sinzdak, counsel for the US government, busy for almost all of her argument before the US Supreme Court earlier today. This case asks the Supreme Court to decide whether 18 U.S.C. §

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“Without any Doubt, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, Beyond any Doubt”: Tribe Declares Trump Committed Attempted Murder

JonathanTurley

You don’t have to go to law school to know that there’s something seriously criminal about that. It was due to the paucity of direct evidence of a crime that would hold up in court. Indeed, such a claim would contradict controlling Supreme Court precedent. There are other crimes that have been proven. See People v.