INSIGHTS & CASES
Latest updates, case studies, and industry news from the lab
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United States v. Jones — Installing a GPS Tracker on a Vehicle Is a Fourth Amendment Search, Even on Public Streets
Read More: United States v. Jones — Installing a GPS Tracker on a Vehicle Is a Fourth Amendment Search, Even on Public StreetsFBI agents physically attached a GPS device to Antoine Jones’s Jeep under a warrant they…
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State v. Jones vs. State v. Moore — The Exact Line Between Admissible and Excluded Surveillance Footage
Read More: State v. Jones vs. State v. Moore — The Exact Line Between Admissible and Excluded Surveillance FootageTwo North Carolina rulings draw the precise boundary. In Moore, an officer’s cell-phone video of…
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Digital Footprints: Surveillance Video and Phone Data Working Together in a Homicide Investigation
Read More: Digital Footprints: Surveillance Video and Phone Data Working Together in a Homicide InvestigationIn the Tiffany Ferguson homicide, surveillance footage placed the suspect and built the timeline; mobile-device…
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Dolan v. State of Florida — Enhanced Surveillance Video Admissible Under the Best Evidence Rule
Read More: Dolan v. State of Florida — Enhanced Surveillance Video Admissible Under the Best Evidence RuleA surveillance recording of a sexual battery was admitted in enhanced form — frames removed,…
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Smith v. State — Conviction Reversed: A Residential Warrant Does Not Authorize Forensic Search of a Phone Found on the Person
Read More: Smith v. State — Conviction Reversed: A Residential Warrant Does Not Authorize Forensic Search of a Phone Found on the PersonOfficers had a valid warrant for the apartment but seized Smith’s phone from his person…