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Officer's Search and Seizure Handbook, Third Edition with CD-ROM

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Publisher :LexisNexis Law Enforcement
Format: Softbound with CD-ROM , CD/BOOK
ISBN: 9781422442944
2008
  $32.00
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    Special Note: Now this Handbook has become even more useful, with an annual supplement containing State-to-State Case Summaries by John A. Stephen. Each supplement includes a CD-ROM containing the full text of each case summarized.

    A short, nuts-and-bolts guide on the application of the Fourth Amendment to everyday police work, Search and Seizure Handbook will prove invaluable to veteran officers as well as officers new to the force.

    Topics include:

    • Basic search and seizure principles
    • Practical advice on preparing and executing search warrants
    • Search warrant exceptions for persons, effects, etc.
    • Warrantless searches of automobiles
    • "Stop and frisk" and other investigative searches

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    Chapter 1: Introduction
    History
    Notes

    Chapter 2: Basic Search and Seizure Principles
    What Constitutes a Search under the Fourth Amendment?
    What Constitutes a Seizure under the Fourth Amendment?
    Does the Search and Seizure Involve a Government Agent?
    Who Is Protected by the Fourth Amendment?
    The Law in Action Case Study
    Notes

    Chapter 3: Search Warrants
    Introduction
    Basic Search Warrant Terminology
    Probable Cause: What Is Sufficient Information to Justify a Search or Seizure?
    Anticipatory Warrants
    Search Warrant Attacks
    Redaction of Search Warrants
    The Fourth Amendment Exclusionary Rule
    Exceptions to the Exclusionary Rule
    Particularity Requirements in Drafting Warrants
    Particularity Describing the Persons or Things to be Searched
    Sample Descriptions & Nexus Paragraphs
    The Guts of the Affidavit
    A Short Course in Grammar and Power Writing
    Execution Concerns
    The Law in Action: Case Studies
    Notes

    Chapter 4: Search Warrant Exceptions
    Introduction
    Search Incident to Arrest
    Consent
    Inventory Searches
    Automobile Exception
    Exigent Circumstances
    Plain View
    Administrative Searches
    Special Government Interests (Special Needs)
    Community Caretaking
    Notes

    Chapter 5: Field Interviews/Investigative Detentions By Police Officers
    Introduction
    Stopping a Citizen
    What Constitutes Specific and Articulable Facts
    Stopping and Frisking a Citizen
    Scope of the Stop and Frisk Search
    Stopping an Automobile
    Reasonable Articulable Suspicion
    Information from Third Party
    Pretexual Stops
    Temporary Detention Based on Reasonable Suspicion
    Ordering Passengers Out of Vehicle
    Warrantless Entry into Driver's Home
    Warrantless Entry into Private Driveways
    Warrantless Seizure of Blood
    The Law in Action: Case Studies
    Notes

    Chapter 6: Key Holdings From Major U.S. Supreme Court Search and Seizure Cases

    Index

     

    Stephen, John A.


    John A. Stephen attended the University of New Hampshire, where he earned a bachelor¿s degree in Business Administration in 1984 from the Whittemore School of Business and Economics. Mr. Stephen then matriculated to Detroit College of Law, part of Michigan State University, and graduated Cum Laude with a Juris Doctorate degree in 1987.

    Upon his graduation from law school in 1987, Mr. Stephen began his legal career as a Law Clerk for United States Federal District Court Judge Martin F. Loughlin. After serving one year as a Law Clerk, Mr. Stephen became an Assistant Hillsborough County Attorney where he prosecuted numerous misdemeanor and felony crimes. In March of 1992, he became an Assistant Attorney General with the New Hampshire Department of Justice. In that capacity, he was the Director of the DWI Unit and was responsible for the statewide supervision of DWI-related cases. In addition to his duties as Director of the DWI Unit, Mr. Stephen prosecuted homicide crimes and regularly appeared before the New Hampshire Supreme Court on appellate issues involving criminal law.

    In 1998, Governor Jeanne Shaheen appointed Mr. Stephen as Assistant Commissioner of the Department of Safety. Governor Craig Benson re-appointed him to the position in March of 2003. He assisted the Commissioner in overseeing the Divisions of State Police, Motor Vehicles, Safety Services and Fire Standards and Training. He also was directly responsible for the Division of Fire Safety and Emergency Management, including the E-911 Bureau, and served as the Commissioner¿s designee on numerous Commissions and Committees.

    In April of 2003, Mr. Stephen was appointed by Commissioner Richard Flynn as the State of New Hampshire¿s Coordinator of Homeland Security. In that capacity, he acted as a liaison between the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the state, county, and local governments in New Hampshire. Mr. Stephen was also the architect behind the Memorandum of Understanding between the Department of Safety and the Department of Health and Human Services, consolidating emergency preparedness responsibilities and centralizing hospital bioterrorism funding. In October of 2003 Governor Benson appointed Mr. Stephen as Commissioner of the Department of Health and Human Services for a four-year term. As Commissioner of the Department of Health and Human Services, he is charged with ensuring the health and well being of New Hampshire¿s residents, with particular emphasis on the most vulnerable citizens. Administrative responsibility includes Medicaid, elder services, financial assistance, mental health, disabilities, drug and alcohol, public health, child support, juvenile justice services and child protective services.

    Mr. Stephen has for many years lectured local and state police, as well as prosecutors, on various legal and homeland security-related issues, including search and seizure and constitutional law. Mr. Stephen is an Adjunct Instructor at the New Hampshire Police Standards and Training Police Academy, where he has taught in the areas of criminal procedure, search and seizure, DWI apprehension and detection, accident reconstruction and drug recognition. He is also on the faculty at the New Hampshire Community Technical College, where he teaches criminal procedure. Mr. Stephen has also published articles, manuals and books in different legal areas of police investigation and prosecution. He is the co-author of the Officer¿s DUI Handbook and Courtroom Survival: Making the Traffic Officer a Powerful Witness, and is the author of the Officer¿s Search & Seizure Handbook and the Officer¿s Arrest Handbook, all criminal and traffic law series publications by LexisNexis¿. Mr. Stephen is also co-author of LexisNexis¿s Investigation and Prosecution of DWI and Vehicular Homicide, and is the author of the highly regarded New Hampshire DWI Manual.

    Mr. Stephen is married and has two children.

     

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