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Supreme Court Limits Restitution Payments to Victims of Child Pornography
The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a plea to make it easier for victims of child pornography to collect money from people who view their images online, throwing out a nearly $3.4…
May 6, 2014 -
PA Supreme Court Rules That No Warrant Is Needed to Search Vehicles
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has recently ruled that a search warrant is no longer needed when searching a vehicle, so long as probable cause exists. The Court determined that the Pennsylvania Constitution…
May 2, 2014 -
United States Supreme Court Rules No Warrant Needed To Enter Home
The Supreme Court recently ruled that police do not always need a warrant to search your property. As long as two occupants disagree about allowing officers to enter, and the resident who…
March 6, 2014 -
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Declines to Apply “Good Faith Exception”
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has issued an opinion declining to apply the “good faith exception” for an individual’s arrest. In March of 2010, a Pennsylvania State Trooper received radio communication that…
March 4, 2014 -
US Supreme Court Struggles with Child Pornography Restitution
Justices at the US Supreme Court on Wednesday grappled with the difficult question of whether a person convicted of downloading and possessing two computer images of child pornography can be forced to…
February 11, 2014 -
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rejects Search of Automobile
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania recently reviewed a case involving “live-stop” procedures. A police Corporal in Harrisburg, PA initiated a vehicle stop after the defendant was observed entering the flow of traffic…
January 9, 2014 -
Pennsylvania seeks to Increase Penalties for Child Pornography Crimes
The Pennsylvania State Senate recently approved a bill to increase the degree of child pornography crimes. The bill was approved in response to the Jerry Sandusky and Catholic clergy molestation scandals that…
December 24, 2013 -
Social Media Ban for Paroled Sex-Offenders
A New Jersey court has recently ruled that paroled sex offenders can be barred from social media websites such as Facebook, LinkedIn and other online social networks. Two paroled sex-offenders challenged the…
December 10, 2013 -
United States Supreme Court Says GPS Tracking Requires a Warrant
Antoine Jones was being investigated by the FBI and a local police department for narcotics violations. During the course of the investigation, the FBI placed a global positioning device on Jones’s vehicle…
October 25, 2013 -
Pennsylvania Court Rules No Notice Needed For Use of Blood Sample for Criminal Proceedings
During the evening of October 22, 2008, Daniel Roger Smith, consumed approximately eight beers while watching the Philadelphia Phillies defeat the Tampa Bay Rays in Game 1 of the World Series. He…
October 11, 2013