Impounding and conducting an inventory search of an arrestee’s vehicle is lawful only if in compliance with the Community Caretaking Doctrine and an agency’s inventory search policies.

Seizing a key from a suspect’s belt loop which is unrelated to the cause of the detention and using that key in an unrelated investigation violates the Fourth Amendment.

The state Supreme Court ruled in November on various Miranda issues raised in the case of a Spanish-speaking defendant convicted of murder and multiple attacks on women. The defendant sought to toss his conviction after detectives gave muddled and…

A police officer using his spotlight to illuminate the inside of a person’s car is not a detention absent additional factors that would indicated to a reasonable person that he is not free to leave.

Using a passenger’s Fourth Waiver as justification for a vehicle search requires a balancing of the likelihood that contraband was secreted in the area searched with the vehicle owner’s privacy interests.