In May of 2012, an Oakland county Trial Court heard a case where a police officer pulled over and eventually arrested an individual for possession of Heroin less than 25 grams. The court suppressed ALL the evidence in the case when the police officer testified that...
In January of 2012, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled in People v. Tavernier and followed the United States Supreme Courts ruling in Arizona v. Gant that a search of the passenger compartment after an arrest is reasonable, only if the arrestee is within reaching...
The United States Supreme Court, in January of 2012, ruled in United States v. Jones that the government’s physical intrusion of attaching and monitoring a GPS unit was a search and was obtained without a proper warrant. The lower court had ruled that any data...