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Eight Circuit: Random Search of Guards' Cars May Violate Fourth Amendment

Loaded on May 15, 2011

Filed under: Searches, Vehicle Searches, Employee Searches. Location: Nebraska.

On July 9, 2010, the Eighth Circuit court of appeals held that randomly searching guards' cars parked in a prison parking lot to which prisoners have no unsupervised access may violate the Fourth Amendment.

Brian True, a former guard at the Lincoln Correction Center of the Nebraska Department of Correctional. ...

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