Tag Archives: Fourth Amendment

The U.S. Supreme Court is deciding whether police can draw blood from a DUI suspect without the driver’s permission and without a search warrant. In this WBAP Radio 820 AM/ 96.7 FM, Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas interview, Lawyers.com Editor-in-Chief Larry Bodine discusses Missouri v. McNeely.   Outside Cape Girardeau, Mo., police stopped trucker Tyler McNeely for speeding. He was physically unstable, had bloodshot eyes, smelled of alcohol, failed the field sobriety tests and refused the breathalyzer test. This would have been …

  The government and private companies are using automatic license plate readers (LPRs) to gather the license numbers of cars on the streets of cities and towns across the country. These gadgets snap pictures of the plates, time stamp the photos and record the GPS coordinates. You don’t even have to be a criminal suspect. You just have to drive a car. Lawyers.com journalist Ed Alpern investigates how the LPR technology is affecting your privacy rights. Some people say the …

  Are your privacy rights being compromised in the name of law and order? Lawyers.com Editorial Director Betsy Kim provides today’s Newsbreak, a round-up of cases and laws that could impact your Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable search and seizure. The U.S. Supreme Court is reviewing a case on whether police need a search warrant for a blood sample from a DUI suspect. Is the right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure under these circumstances outweighed by the …

    Getting a DUI citation will ruin your life. You’ll lose your license, which means you may lose your job, you’ll pay huge fines and you may go to jail.  All of this could have been avoided if you had just known your own limit. The reason that law enforcement and the courts are so harsh on drunk drivers is that in 2010 alone they killed 10,288 people, according to Mothers Against Drunk Driving. Every year, 1.4 million arrests …

This article first appeared on Politix. Click here to access the original article and to participate in the Politix comment board. The U.S. Supreme Court will decide if the police have the power to strap you down and take a blood sample without a search warrant when you are arrested for a DUI. It happened to a drunken trucker who was pulled over for his third DUI and who refused to take the breathalyzer test. His blood alcohol level was …