A recent ruling by the Minnesota Supreme Court “has expanded the ability of police to search premises without a warrant,” reports Minnesota Lawyer. Three of the five justices who considered…
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Minnesota’s Sentencing Guidelines Commission, which has considerable control over how much prison time offenders receive for convictions, “has cobbled together 12 last-chance policy changes to consider before a new governor…
A California company, Hound Labs, says it has made a marijuana breathalyzer that can “accurately detect whether a person has smoked pot in the last two hours, a window many…
Amazon’s Rekognition, a facial recognition software program used by some law enforcement agencies, performed poorly in tests run by the ACLU, the organization says. The ACLU used Rekognition on photos of…
North Dakota is one of 35 states included in a recent report about the Justice Reinvestment Initiative, a partnership that includes The Pew Charitable Trusts, the U.S. Justice Department, and…
This fall the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case about “whether the double jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment bars states and the federal government from separately trying the same…
A Kansas court recently ruled that Google Translate is not “a reliable enough interpreter to justify sending a man to prison,” reports Business Insider. A Kansas state trooper had used…
The North Dakota Supreme Court ruled this week that a police officer “went too far during a pat-down search” for weapons, and it threw out the defendant’s two guilty pleas…
In a victory for Fourth Amendment rights, this week the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that “police generally cannot enter private property to search a motor vehicle without first obtaining a…
Criminal charges against law enforcement officers can affect the arrests they’ve made and the cases they’ve testified at or would testify at, reported West Dakota Fox News recently, stating that…
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