Although the U.S. Supreme Court speaks of the need for straightforward, bright-line rules to govern criminal procedure, its decisions often do not yield the desired results. This is not a criticism of ...

In 1949, Justice Frank Murphy dissented in the case of Wolf v. Colorado, passionately defending the exclusionary rule. He warned that "only by exclusion [of evidence] can we impress upon the zealous ...

In this case, the Minnesota Supreme Court is considering the scope of a crucial doctrine that protects criminal defendants from being convicted based on evidence obtained in violation of their ...

Federal courts in recent decades have made it easier for prosecutors to use evidence obtained during unconstitutional searches, but Kansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Marla Luckert appears ready to ...

Lawyers for the Justice Department and a Mobile doctor convicted of writing illegal prescriptions tangled for more than 90 minutes Tuesday in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. Those arguments ...

What would your internet searches reveal about you if others could scrutinize and second-guess them? It's something to think about, given that the big search engines, like Google, store search ...