Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 222: Listen and Learn -- Criminal Procedure: Stop and Frisk
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 220: Listen and Learn -- Exceptions to the Warrant Requirement
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 173: Listen and Learn -- Criminal Procedure: Warrant Requirements
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 141: Listen and Learn -- The Fourth Amendment
Search Warrant Protocol: Stop a Bad Day from Getting Worse [More with McGlinchey Ep. 6]
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 70: Tackling a California Bar Exam Essay: Criminal Law and Procedure
Episode 34 -- The Cohen Criminal Investigation and the Search Warrants
Government Investigations - How to Respond to a Search Warrant: 10 Practical Steps
On August 29, 2022, the Maryland Court of Appeals issued its opinion in Richardson v. Maryland, expanding the protection of the Fourth Amendment for subjects of criminal investigations whose cell phones are subject to a...more
Virtual currency has been around for a number of years now, and yet many still believe virtual currency transactions provide a level of anonymity and privacy not afforded by other types of monetary transactions. That simply...more
The Situation: While investigating a website for criminal activities, federal agents traced Bitcoin transactions and issued a subpoena to a virtual-currency exchange to identify customers of the site. Using that information,...more
Faced with the novel question of whether an individual has a Fourth Amendment privacy interest in the records of their Bitcoin transactions, the Fifth Circuit found that Bitcoin data is akin to bank records and not subject to...more
As employers, manufacturers are aware of their responsibility for knowing the safety standards applicable to their businesses. But many do not understand their rights and obligations during the inspection process. In recent...more
A dispute in California federal court over whether Google must turn over documents stored overseas in response to a search warrant may have major implications for white collar practitioners and their clients. Last week Google...more
Last week saw action on two fronts regarding the Stored Communications Act (SCA) – the US federal statute regulating government searches of online accounts in criminal investigations. In Congress, a proposal to reform the SCA...more
On July 31, 2015, Quartavious Davis petitioned for certiorari in Davis v. United States, No. 15-146 asking (1) whether the acquisition of a cell phone user’s location data from his cellular service provider constitutes a...more
A number of courts have considered whether the Fourth Amendment requires the government to obtain a warrant to access historical and/or real time cell phone geographic location information, known as CSLI. CSLI is cell site...more
On June 25th, the Supreme Court brought the Fourth Amendment into the digital age with its ruling in Riley v. California. The case presented the question of whether a warrant was required in order for law enforcement to...more
In a unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled this week in Riley v. California that police generally may not conduct a warrantless search of digital data stored on the cell phone of someone who has been arrested. The...more