The so-called “War on Drugs” has resulted in the expenditure of enormous public resources and the imposition of harsh sentences upon many individuals engaged in relatively minor drug offenses. The broad scope of the “automobile exception” to the warrant requirement...
As a way of obtaining probable cause to issue a search warrant on the home of a person suspected of drug offenses, police search garbage for evidence. The United States Supreme Court in California v. Greenwood, 486 U.S. 35 (1988) held that people do not have a...
