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Appellate Practice

Oct. 20, 1999

U.S. Supreme Court Higlights

^^U.S. SUPREME COURT HIGHLIGHTS^^ Among actions announced Monday by the justices were: OPINION SEARCH AND SEIZURE: In a unanimous per curiam opinion, the court ruled that there is no "murder scene exception" to the search warrant requirement, reaffirming its decision in Mincey v. Arizona , 437 U.S. 385 (1978). The unsigned decision reverses a ruling by the West Virginia Court of Appeals that had upheld prosecutors' use of photographs seized by police from inside a briefcase at the scene of a

^^U.S. SUPREME COURT HIGHLIGHTS^^
Among actions announced Monday by the justices were:
OPINION
SEARCH AND SEIZURE: In a unanimous per curiam opinion, the court ruled that there is no "murder scene exception" to the search warrant requirement, reaffirming its decision in Mincey v. Arizona, 437 U.S. 385 (1978). The unsigned decision reverses a ruling by the West Virginia Court of Appeals ...

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