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Think your cell phone location is private?  Think again!  Now there is the stingray, a surveillance device used by the government that can trick suspects’ cell phones into revealing their locations.  This stingray is not a fish.  It is a “cell site simulator,” and it can mimic cell phone towers in order to force cell phones in the area to transmit “pings” back to the stingray devices, en

Ever since police dogs have been used to sniff out drugs and contraband, the courts have recognized what we lawyers call “the plain sniff” rule.  What this means is that any contraband that can be smelled by a dog can give law enforcement probable cause to search just as if the contraband were in plain view of the officer.  Under this rule, for example, a drug sniffing dog alerting on your car at a traffic stop or ch