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Articles and commentary from Platt, Thompson & Buescher on Warrants.
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If police searched you, your car, or your home, you may wonder whether the court can still use what officers found. Washington law gives you strong protections against improper searches, and those protections often exceed federal standards. Understanding how these rules work can affect how a criminal case…
Read ArticleMy point in writing these ditties, in addition to shameless self-promotion, is to try to demonstrate how various issues in the news would play out in the world of lawyers. I try to give…
Read ArticleThe Police knock on your door. Now what? As mentioned in previous articles on this blog, any warrantless search or seizure is unlawful – without a jealously guarded exception to the warrant requirement. What…
Read ArticleCriminal Defense Attorney serving Oak Harbor, Seattle, and King, Island, Skagit, Snohomish, and Whatcom County provides a quick, unedited blurb about how the Supreme Court was correct in its June 25, 2014 opinion. The…
Read ArticleThe law evolves along with technology. For example, early strict liability law concerned non-domestic or exotic animals: an owner of a lion, bear, or other wild beast would be strictly liable for damage caused…
Read ArticleA Minnesota appellate court recently appears to have claimed that the state may criminalize a person’s refusal to consent to a warrantless search if the officer could have hypothetically obtained a warrant. You can…
Read ArticleIn part 1, we discussed what is required for law enforcement to make a warrantless entry into the home. The state must prove each of the following elements of the emergency aid exception to…
Read ArticleThe law has recognized that “every man’s home is his castle.” This does not mean that a homeowner can do whatever he or she pleases or engage in abuse. For example, Ray Rice of…
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