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...administration. Late last week, according to the Albany Times-Union, lawyers for an Albany man accused of trying to sell missile launchers to terrorists asked a federal district court to dismiss the charges because evidence leading to his being targeted in an FBI sting operation was allegedly obtained by warrantless wiretapping. Gonzales was asked on CNN about terror suspects and wiretapping evidence. "I can't speak to specific cases," he said. "What I can say is we believe the program is lawful." But since not everyone sees it that way, the President might decide to seek a little extra assurance...
...D.Mass.1998); Sheriff of Middlesex County v. International Bhd. of Correctional Officers, Local R1-193, 62 Mass.App.Ct. 830, 831-832 (2005). A deputy sheriff has authority to take actions that a private person would not have in similar circumstances. A deputy sheriff may make warrantless arrests for misdemeanors, but only if the misdemeanor involves a breach of the peace, occurs in their presence or view, and continues at the time of arrest. See Commonwealth v. Howe, 405 Mass. 332, 334 (1989); Commonwealth v. Grise, 398 Mass. 247, 251- 252 (1986). The fact that some individual HUPD officers have been appointed...
...security concerns as justification. After a Bush-appointed judge initially rebuffed the protestors appeal for a legal injunction, the Court rightfully found that the city violated the protestors’ Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable search-and-seizure by forcing them to submit to a “mass, warrantless, suspicionless search policy...
...four search-and-seizure decisions the Court has issued this year have been victories for civil libertarians - but some experts say that the decisions don't do much to stanch the erosion of Fourth Amendment protection and the broadening conditions under which courts will give a thumbs up to warrantless searches...
...deputy sheriff, like a HUPD officer, may make a warrantless arrest for any "breach of the peace" committed in his presence. The laws of the commonwealth also allow for deputy sheriffs to enter any premise licensed to serve alcohol without a warrant and make an arrest for any violation...