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11 Jul '16
Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) is a great concert venue. It is also the scene of lots of drug arrests in the summer. There are the usual garden variety marijuana busts in which a cop walks past a kid smoking a joint which may not lead to a search and seizure or other legal problem, but can […]
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18 May '16
After multiple seasons of CSI, it comes as a surprise to many to learn many accident cases lack objective proof. Worse is the myth the Accident Report is the product of reliable scientific testing performed by well trained police and forensic evidence technicians. The other mythological aspect of the police Accident Report is the idea […]
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17 Feb '16
Everyone knows the phrase, “Miranda Rights”. Ernesto Miranda confessed to some nasty crimes (rape and kidnapping) in 1963 without having been told by the police he had the right to counsel and to remain silent. In 1966, the US Supreme Court held when a person in custody is being questioned by law enforcement, the 5th & 6th Amendments to […]