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Article • May 15, 2007
Suspicionless Car Searches of Prison Visitors Upheld by The court of appeals for the Tenth circuit upheld a roadblock by Oklahoma state police and prison officials that led to the suspicionless car searches and dog sniffs of all prison visitors seeking access to prison. Court upheld the strip search of …
Article • May 15, 2007
Searching Vehicle Of Prison Visitor Suspected Of Illegal Drug Possession Upheld by New Jersey resident Janice Daniels appealed a State court denial of her motion to suppress heroin seized from her vehicle's interior. Mrs, Daniels and her husband were visiting her son who was incarcerated at the Garden State Youth …
Criminal Law Update by Reaves, Jr, Walter M by Walter Reaves The following are summaries of the some of more significant, and interesting cases decided during the last several months dealing with issues important to prisoners and those interested in post-conviction litigation. SEARCH AND SEIZURE Corroboration of Affidavit - United …
Article • July 15, 2002 • from PLN July, 2002
Illinois Contraband Law Revisited by The Illinois Fifth District Appellate Court has analyzed an amended statute relating to the introduction of contraband. The court held that the amendment mandates a new statutory construction requiring contraband to be actually brought into areas dedicated to prisoner confinement. Pedro Carillo went to visit …
Departing Visitor Cannot Be Searched -- Strip Search Okay by In the February, 1995, issue of PLN we reported Spear v. Sowders, 33 F.3d 576 (6th Cir. 1994) in which the court of appeals for the sixth circuit held that both the strip search and the car search of a …
Article • August 15, 1996 • from PLN August, 1996
Prison Visitor Allowed to Refuse Search by The court of appeals for the state of Maryland held that prison visitors cannot be searched once they agree to turn back from a guard booth; detention of a prison visitor requires probable cause based on a reasonable, articulable suspicion that the visitor …
Visitor Search Held Illegal by Lenora Daugherty frequently visited her husband at the Turney Center, a Tennessee state prison. Prior to one of Daughertys visits a prison guard told the warden that he had received information that she was smuggling drugs into the prison. The warden also received two letters …
No Immunity for Visitor Strip Search by Tina Spear regularly visited her boyfriend, Daniel Wade, at the Northpoint Training center, a Kentucky state prison. Upon arriving for a visit on Christmas day in 1990 prison officials told her she would not be allowed to visit Wade unless she submitted to …
Brief • February 1, 1995
Filed under: Vehicle Searches, Police
Ruvalcaba v. City of Los Angeles, CA, Petition for Writ of Certiorari, Police Traffic Stops, 1995 No. 95-______ ______________________________________ IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES OCTOBER TERM 1995 ______ ENRIQUE RUVALCABA, Petitioner, vs. CITY OF LOS ANGELES, et al., Respondents. ______________________________________ PETITION FOR A WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO …
Article • August 15, 1993 • from PLN August, 1993
California Visitor Search Ruling Modified by A 13-point injunction concerning searches of visitors to California prisons was scrutinized March 23 and modified in some particulars by the California Court of Appeals, First District. The injunction was the result of a suit challenging a program under which visitors' vehicles were subjected …
Article • October 15, 1991 • from PLN October, 1991
Search of Prison Visitors Without Probable Cause Illegal by Search Of Prison Visitors Without Probable Cause Illegal Lenora Daugherty is the wife of a Tennessee prisoner who was subjected to a visual body cavity search and a search of her vehicle in 1988 as a condition to be able to …
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