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Database Name: Searches & Seizures, Arrests and Confessions 2d

Database Identifier: SSAC

Coverage
Content current through November 2009 print update

Updates: Three times per year

Content Highlights:
Searches & Seizures, Arrests and Confessions 2d is a sourcebook for all aspects of search, seizure, arrest and confession jurisprudence.

New features and recent developments of the November 2009 release include:

Updated s 3:11 The Eighth Circuit held in U.S. v. Alvarez-Manzo that voluntary consent following an officer's removal of a bag from the cargo area to the bus's passenger seating without reasonable suspicion for so doing, was not sufficient to attenuate the taint of the improper seizure. Police deemed a bag in the cargo hold suspicious based on an unusual destination city and other suspicious markings on the baggage tag, and took the bag on the bus to ask the bag's owner to disembark the bus for questioning. The court reasoned that there was no showing of a break in the causal relationship between the consented search, and the prior illegal search.

Updated s 14:8 In Club Retro, L.L.C. v. Hilton, the Fifth Circuit addressed a warrantless SWAT team raid on a nightclub that authorities attempted to defend as an administrative search connected to an allegation that the club was remaining open after-hours in violation of local ordinance, concluding that the raid was broader in scope and more extreme in manner than the administrative inspection laws permit.

Updated s17:2 In Safford Unified School Dist. No. 1 v. Redding, the Supreme Court found that an assistant principal had reasonable suspicion that a 13-year-old student in his Middle School was distributing contraband drugs, but his suspicion did not justify the strip search he ordered.

Updated s 31:18 In Montejo v. Louisiana, the Supreme Court overruled Michigan v. Jackson, which had for 22 years controlled the admissibility of evidence obtained from questioning of an accused after he requests the assistance of counsel. Under the Jackson rule, courts were to presume that such a waiver is invalid, and no further questioning could take place in the absence of counsel unless the accused himself initiates further conversation with the police and waives his Miranda rights. The Montejo rule removes that presumption.

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Contents
Content Type(s): Treatise

This database contains Searches & Seizures, Arrests and Confessions 2d, a three-volume set covering Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Amendment law. A document is a numbered section of text, index or other subdivision of the publication.

Publisher/Provider: Thomson Reuters/West

Author: William E. Ringel

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1 Searches & Seizures, Arrests and Confessions 2d

s 1:1 SSAC

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