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OH8: Talking to defendant already stopped was by consent

FourthAmendment.com - News - Tue, 2025-05-13 20:22

Police had a tip about defendant and drugs, and they saw him parked in an abandoned gas station working on his vehicle. They approached to talk to him, and it was all consensual. State v. Banks, 2012 Ohio 2304, 2012 Ohio App. LEXIS 2024 (8th Dist. May 24, 2012).*

Officers had reasonable suspicion defendant had cocaine on him when they approached him, and defendant’s tossing an Altoids can as police approached was not the product of an illegal stop. State v. Golden, 2012 La. App. LEXIS 715 (La. App. 4 Cir. May 23, 2012).*

The owner of the vehicle defendant was a passenger in consented to the search of the vehicle. United States v. McNeil, 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 10708 (4th Cir. May 25, 2012).*

Romney: Obama denying middle class a 'fair shot'

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-13 20:22
STRATHAM, N.H. (AP) -- Mitt Romney launched the next phase of his presidential campaign Friday, kicking off a six-state, small-town bus tour and telling middle-class Americans that President Barack Obama hasn't given them "a fair shot."...

Tea partyers down on Upton in Michigan primary

DETROIT — He chairs one of Capitol Hill's most powerful committees, won his 2010 race with 62 percent of the vote and even boasts a niece who graced Sports Illustrated's swimsuit-edition cover. But all that hasn't saved Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan from a strong Republican primary challenge fueled by ...

Four More Years?

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2025-05-13 20:22
OUTSIDE THE BOX By Pete du Pont If you think the first Obama term has been bad, just wait.


Four More Years?

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2025-05-13 20:22
OUTSIDE THE BOX By Pete du Pont If you think the first Obama term has been bad, just wait.


Shale study's lead author faces 'green' backlash

Faced with mounting criticism, the State University of New York at Buffalo is distancing itself from a Marcellus Shale gas-drilling study released earlier this month by the school's own Shale Resources and Society Institute.

But the report's lead author is defending the work by the fledgling institute, saying Monday that ...

McGurn: Cheer, Cheer for Old Notre Dame

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2025-05-13 20:22
The university's lawsuit against Obama's contraceptive mandate puts Indiana senate candidate Joe Donnelly in a bind.


Improvised Explosive Device Tax

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2025-05-13 20:22
Support is growing to repeal this levy on medical innovation.


The Best of Enemies

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2025-05-13 20:22
In the early days of the Soviet Union, British agents used intrigue and double-dealing to destroy the new regime. Robert Service tells the story in "Spies and Commissars." Simon Sebag Montefiore reviews.


Stephens: On Iran, We'll Probably Get Fooled Again

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2025-05-13 20:22
The regime has treated the West the way a shark would a squid.


Smog a daunting hazard at Sequoia National Park

SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — On a clear day, the view from Beetle Rock in Sequoia National Park extends west for 105 miles across the patchwork of crops in California's agricultural heartland to the Coast Mountains and the Pacific Ocean beyond.

The problem is there are few clear days, even ...

Smog a daunting hazard at Sequoia National Park

SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — On a clear day, the view from Beetle Rock in Sequoia National Park extends west for 105 miles across the patchwork of crops in California's agricultural heartland to the Coast Mountains and the Pacific Ocean beyond.

The problem is there are few clear days, even ...

Group sees need for changes in remedial college classes

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — Each year, an estimated 1.7 million U.S. college students are steered to remedial classes to catch them up and prepare them for regular course work. But a growing body of research shows the courses are eating up time and money, often leading not to degrees but ...

Group sees need for changes in remedial college classes

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — Each year, an estimated 1.7 million U.S. college students are steered to remedial classes to catch them up and prepare them for regular course work. But a growing body of research shows the courses are eating up time and money, often leading not to degrees but ...

Robert Bryce: Renewable Energy Can't Run the Cloud

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2025-05-13 20:22
Data centers now consume about 1.3% of all global electricity.


Winston and Crandall: The Law Firm Business Model Is Dying

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2025-05-13 20:22
Rules that were adopted to protect the legal profession from outside competition are actually stifling it.


Notable & Quotable

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2025-05-13 20:22
Harvard's Theda Skocpol on the true political significance of ObamaCare.


George Melloan: Seeing Is Not Believing at Today's Fed

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2025-05-13 20:22
Glasnost has destroyed the central bank's mystique. Traders and investors can now peek inside the kitchen and notice the guesswork.


Robert Rubin: A Budget Grand Bargain Will Follow the Election

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2025-05-13 20:22
Early 2013 will offer the best political environment for critical fiscal reform.


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