SCALES OF JUSTICE V. THE LEGISLATIVE PEN — WEIGH IN ON THE FLORIDA JUDICIAL OVERRIDE PROPOSAL

“You’ve been checked and balanced!”   This is what the Florida court system is essentially saying to the legislature when it declares a state law unconstitutional.   However, State Representative Julio Gonzalez, a Venice, Florida Republican, is concerned that the judiciary has abused this power and has been “encroaching” on the legislature…

THE US SUPREME COURT CONFIRMS AN INTERVENING EVENT EXCEPTION FOR WARRANTS DISCOVERED BETWEEN AN ILLEGAL STOP AND THE DISCOVERY OF ILLEGAL EVIDENCE IN UTAH V. SHRIEFF

The United States Supreme Court, in Utah v. Shrieff,  has ruled that a valid arrest warrant is a sufficient intervening event to break the chain between an illegal stop or detention and the discovery and admissibility of evidence.  This  has impacted the well-established principal of law that, with some exceptions, when officers…