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...receiving consent, police told him that they did not need a warrant to search his room. And in light of the search of Walleck’s room, HUPD launched an internal investigation into the actions of the detective, which concluded that the officer acted within protocol.But experts in civil rights and criminal law suggest that consent can be tainted if officers are misleading.And although undergraduates in college dormitories are subject to administration searches, experts say that university police departments—even private ones like HUPD—must in almost all cases obtain warrants.ELEPHANTS IN A TOOL BOXThe...
...abrogated by a board set up to protect the Confederacy from rabble-rousing supporters of Abraham Lincoln. Though much has changed in the last 144 years, a large part of St. Louis’s charter can still be traced to the political situation at the outbreak of the Civil War, when its large population of anti-slavery German immigrants—the mid-19th century equivalent of today’s “dangerous radicals”—made St. Louis a significant threat to the newly seceded Confederacy.For those of you who haven?...
...will be made. Martin herself works as a Transportation Security Administration lawyer, and prosecutors say she had no substantive involvement with the case, simply locating TSA files and helping arrange witness interviews. Lawyers who know her say she's an aggressive attorney but has confined herself to work in civil and administrative law, which has looser rules for admissible evidence than in criminal law. The case was "a classic example of too many chefs spoiling the soup," says Larry Barcella, a former assistant U.S. attorney who's handled a number of terror trials...
...Martin's attorney, Roscoe C. Howard Jr., released a statement Thursday claiming his client, who was placed on paid administrative leave from her job Thursday and could face civil or criminal charges, has been "viciously vilified by assertions from the prosecution." What prosecutors have told the judge she did, the statement said, is not "the whole truth." Howard said Martin is preparing her response, which "will show a very different, full picture of her intentions, her conduct and her tireless dedication to a fair trial...
Furthermore, allowing religious groups and individuals exemptions from a reasonable civil law is discriminatory to non-religious organizations and individuals. While religious people can claim that being subjected to a certain law is against their most deeply held religious convictions, atheists cannot raise such an argument in order to seek exemption from a law. An adamantly anti-homosexual adoption agency with no religious affiliation would not be able to seek the same exemption sought by Catholic charities but would rather have to attempt to articulate a secular reason why they cannot place children in same-sex homes. Would said homophobic...