James Ewinger reports: A little-known federal law that allows investigators to carry out a search warrant without the suspect’s knowledge contributed to the smashing of a major heroin ring in the area last week. […] The delayed-notice search warrant is designed to keep suspects from knowing they are under surveillance. In this case, investigators used…
Category: Court
Pirate Bay trial set to reopen
An appeal by the four men convicted in the Pirate Bay trial opens on Tuesday. Carl Lundström, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde will face the Svea Court in a bid to overturn their conviction for being accessories to copyright violations. Both the defendants and prosecution are confident ahead of court proceedings. Read…
Implicit Bias and the Fourth Amendment
L. Song Richardson, Associate Professor & Co-Director, Center for Law and Science, DePaul University College of Law, wrote this piece for the Constitution in 2020 conference on The Future of Criminal Justice: My vision for constitutional law in the area of criminal justice in 2020 relates to race, policing and the Fourth Amendment. I envision a…
French court orders Google Inc to pay libel damages: report
A French court has ordered Google Inc to pay 5,000 euros ($6,672) in libel damages to a man who claimed that searches for his name automatically yielded a list of harmful suggestions. The man, whose name was not given, said the suggested terms that came up when typing his name on Google.fr — including the…