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Law enforcement can engage in many forms of surveillance during a criminal investigation. They may obtain a wiretap for a phone line. They may use a “stingray” to listen to cell phone conversations. They may…

Two Hillsborough County residents are facing marijuana charges after officers reported finding plants and other items at a home on Eldorado Drive. According to reports, the investigation started after the Tampa Electric Company found that…

The U.S. Constitution, via the Fourth Amendment, ensures that the people shall be secure in the persons, paper and property. This rule prevents law enforcement from breaking into your home and ransacking it, looking for…

Sometimes government attempts to solve a problem that doesn’t exist. This may be done to win political points. But when the attempt includes blanket searches of everyone involved, questions involving the Fourth Amendment are implicated….

When an individual has an addiction, it is often difficult for him or her to seek the help that is needed. As a result, some parties may find themselves being questioned or taken into custody…

Many individuals may not be immensely knowledgeable on how certain legal processes are carried out. Therefore, when a party is facing drug charges, he or she may not fully understand what type of situation they…

That is a very different notion than giving the police cellphone location data from a “stingray” that allows them to track an individual’s whereabouts 24/7 and would make most people slightly uneasy. The “stingray” device…

Cellphones, being a new technology, have been involved in few Fourth Amendment cases, and therefore, there is little guidance as to how to interpret some of the new capabilities within the context of the Fourth…

Police have been using the metadata gleaned from cellphone tower interactions for years. And they have done it without a warrant. This issue, whether cellphone location data obtained from the telecoms requires a warrant had…

You may have noticed when reading about criminal charges in news reports that they often include the seemingly mundane fact that the officer was speaking with the suspect during a traffic stop. Because they eventually…