LEGAL COMMENTARIES ON PAST JUDICIAL DECISIONS |
Reviewed May 2005
The following is a series of links to legal commentaries concerning past judicial decisions that affect the work of the law enforcement officer. Law enforcement officials not from North Carolina should consult with their legal advisors to determine whether there are peculiarities in their state laws appropriate to these articles.
State v. Fowler
United States v. Dunn
Four Factor Test to Determine the Curtilage of Residential
Property
Colorado v. Bertine
When a Warrantless Search is Constitutional: Inventory Search is
Generally Allowed When Law Enforcement Agency Policy is Reasonable and Officer
Follows It.
State v. Outlaw
Under Certain Circumstances, It is the Felony of Trafficking in
Controlled Substances to Transport that Substance from One Place on a Property
to Another Place on the Same Property
State v. Aubin
Determination of Reasonable Suspicion
State v. Jones
Authority to Make an Investigative Stop
U.S. v. Stanfield
During Traffic Stops When Law Enforcement Officers Are Required To
Approach A Vehicle Whose Windows Are So Heavily Tinted They Are Unable To View
The Interior, The Officers May Open A Door and Look Inside
State v. Alston
Enforcing the Controlled Substances Law Within 300 Feet of an
Elementary or Secondary School or the Boundary Thereof
Oregon v. Bradshaw
Two Part Test Must Be Met If A Court Is To Admit A Statement A
Suspect Makes After Asserting A Right To Counsel
Edwards v. Arizona
Assertion of the Right to Counsel
State v. Chapman
Length of Time You May Hold a Defendant After Arrest Before Taking Him To
a Magistrate
Rhode Island v. Innis
Definition of Interrogation for the Purpose of Miranda
Dunaway v. New York
You May Not Transport a Suspect Based on Reasonable Suspicion Alone
Terry v. Ohio
The Original Stop and Frisk Case
Meritor Savings Bank v.
Vinson
Sexual Harassment
State v. Hester
You May be Asked, During Trial, What Your Methods were in Securing a
Confession, and Whether You Deviated from your Usual Methods During the
Interrogation
Illinois v. Perkins
Waiver of Miranda Rights Not Needed Before a Prisoner in Jail if Asked
Questions by an Undercover Officer Who is Posing as a Cellmate if Questioning
Occurs Before Sixth Amendment Rights Have Attached.
Stansbury v.
California
What an Officer is Thinking Does Not Determine Custody.
What an Officer Says and How He Behaves Does Determine Custody!
Escobedo v. Illinois
Escobedo is Not the Controlling Case on when a Suspect is in Custody for
the Purposes of Miranda, that is, Focus of Suspicion on a Suspect is Not, in of
itself, Custody
State v. Jackson
A North Carolina Nondisclosure of a Confidential Informant Case
U.S. v. Roviaro
Original Nondisclosure of a Confidential Informant Case