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In the Spring 2008 Newsletter
Entry and Search of the “Wrong Dwelling”:
Options in Fourth Amendment Cases
By Robert B. Sykes, Alyson E. Carter & Scott R. Edgar
INTRODUCTION
In a classic scene from The Pink Panther Strikes Again, Inspector
Clouseau (Peter Sellers) is checking into a hotel. He sees a
dog lying on the floor and asks the hotel clerk, “Does
your dog bite”? The hotel clerk responds, “No,”
so Clouseau bends down to pet the dog and says, “Nice
doggy.” The dog viciously jumps up and bites Clouseau
on the hand. Clouseau turns to the hotel clerk in bewilderment
and says, “I thought you said your dog does not bite.”
The hotel clerk responds, “That is not my dog.”
There is a lesson here for handling a Fourth Amendment “wrong
dwelling” case. At first blush, the case might look like
a “nice doggy,” but it may ultimately bite you.
Unless we are very careful about getting all of the facts and
understanding the case law, we may expend a great deal of time
and money only to. . .
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A LEVER LONG ENOUGH
TO MOVE THE WORLD: A GUIDE TO POLITICAL ACTIVISM
Lori E. Andrus, San Francisco, CA
Archimedes once said “Give me a lever long enough and
a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.”
That maxim fits well with my view of political activism: The
occasional, solitary political act may not seem to make much
of a difference, but if we are thoughtful about our political
activism, and if we identify the most effective political tools
and put them to use, we can move the world.
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was presented at the 2007 AAJ Annual Convention in Chicago.
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