Houston police had been amending sworn probable cause summaries without documenting or swearing to the changes, appearing to violate a 2017 federal court settlement that reformed the local jail’s ...

Suppose police in Gotham City were investigating a murder, suspected the killer was the Joker, but lacked probable cause to search his hideout. Eager to solve the crime and with the clock of public ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Recently, a judge in the Eastern District of New York announced a new legal standard for probable cause in gun cases in New York. Essentially, the court concluded that a significant increase in ...