Highlights of This Issue

United States Supreme Court Action

• Supreme Court to Rule on High Speed Pursuits: bumping fleeing vehicle with police push bumper
• Court Defers Decision on Whether Spectators' Actions in court could result in reversal of conviction; police practice pointer

Federal and State Decisions

• Arrest, Search and Seizure Issues: approaching a car; emergency aid doctrine; search incident to arrest; suspicionless stops of cabs; "Hide-a-Key" boxes; center console of car; investigatory drug stop; good faith exception; mistake of law; traffic stop request for consent search; evidence in plain view; accompanying defendant into home
• Interrogation Issues: custody; arrest-like restraint; strip search; prison setting; invoking right to remain silent; "not going to talk about nothing"; invoking right to counsel; request to call parents; effect of illegal arrest; public safety exception; mental retardation; low I.Q.; waiver; request for information about charges
• Crimes, Evidence, Defense Issues: disorderly conduct; yelling at officer; obscuring a license plate; identification procedures; shoe impressions; expert witness qualifications; hearsay; dead victim's statements; entrapment; use of decoys in accomplice checks
• Trial Procedure Issues Involving Police Witnesses: "one hundred percent"certain; rehabilitation of accomplice witness; victim's statement; identification of car; hollow-point bullets
• Civil Liability/Personnel Law Issues: police pursuit; excessive force; police annual physicals; regulating police testimony; collective bargaining issues; Garrity immunity; pre-termination hearing; attorneys' fees; racial harassment; isolated racial slurs

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