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Europe's record goalscorers

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 12:51
A look at European football's record goalscorers
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WA: SW for car permitted search of purse left there even though there was no PC as to purse

FourthAmendment.com - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 12:51

Defendant was in a car that was stopped and the police had probable cause. The made her leave her purse behind. When the warrant issued, the purse could be searched because it was with the car, for which there was probable cause. State v. Campbell, 2011 Wash. App. LEXIS 2875 (December 29, 2011), Order Granting Motion to Publish 165 Wn. App. 1021, 2011 Wash. App. LEXIS 2915 (Wash. Ct. App., Dec. 29, 2011):

Circumstances can exist where probable cause may exist for a search of an individual's property even though officers do not have equivalent probable cause that the owner of the property is involved in crime. Cf. Zurcher v. Stanford Daily, 436 U.S. 547, 556-57, 98 S. Ct. 1970, 56 L. Ed. 2d 525 (1978) (Fourth Amendment does not prevent issuance of a warrant to search property simply because the owner or possessor is not reasonably suspected of criminal involvement); see also 2 Wayne R. Lafave, Search and Seizure: A Treatise on the Fourth Amendment § 4.10(b) at 747-48 (4th ed. 2004) (distinguishing entitlement to search a visitor's belongings where police have grounds to believe items sought in the warrant might be concealed there). Both Worth and Hill implicitly recognize that personal property belonging to someone other than the owner of premises can be subject to a warrant for a premises search where probable cause exists and the scope of a warrant is accordingly broad: Worth's holding depends on its reasoning that no probable cause brought Worth's purse within the scope of the warrant. Hill's holding that “generally officers have no authority under a premises warrant to search personal effects an individual is wearing or holding” implies that sometimes they do. 123 Wn.2d at 644 (emphasis added).

Pill scam bigamist dressed as man

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 12:51
A bigamist who fooled a doctor into giving her sleeping pills by dressing as a man is spared jail.
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Sky announces NowTV net service

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 12:51
Sky reveals more details of its new pay-as-you-go internet TV service, NowTV.
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Tanks 'shelling Damascus suburbs'

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 12:51
Government tanks have shelled two suburbs of Syria's capital Damascus, opposition activists say, as the UN Security Council backs a peace plan.
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Slow internet fears for Olympics

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 12:51
The Internet Service Providers' Association warns that the UK's internet infrastructure may struggle during the Olympic Games.
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Life term for Dunblane survivor

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 12:51
A survivor of the Dunblane massacre who carried out a "shocking" sex attack on an elderly woman in her own home is given a life sentence.
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Bridegroom jailed for hotel arson

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 12:51
A groom who deliberately set fire to a hotel after a row with staff at his wedding reception is jailed for six years.
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N.H. House kills gay marriage repeal bill

CONCORD, N.H. — New Hampshire lawmakers on Wednesday rejected a bill that would have made their state legislature the first one to repeal a gay marriage law, handing gay-rights supporters a key victory in the Northeast, where same-sex marriage is prevalent.

The state House voted 211-116 to kill the measure, ...

Belgium holds service for victims of bus crash

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-04 12:51
LOMMEL, Belgium (AP) -- King Albert II and thousands of mourners on Wednesday remembered the 28 victims of last week's bus crash in a Swiss tunnel during a memorial service centering on the 22 schoolchildren whose promise of youth was shattered by sudden death....

Belgium holds service for victims of bus crash

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-04 12:51
LOMMEL, Belgium (AP) -- King Albert II and thousands of mourners on Wednesday remembered the 28 victims of last week's bus crash in a Swiss tunnel during a memorial service centering on the 22 schoolchildren whose promise of youth was shattered by sudden death....

PA: Warrant was overbroad as to other drugs, but plain view supported seizure anyway

FourthAmendment.com - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 12:51

The search warrant was for marijuana, cocaine, and paraphernalia, but there was only probable cause for marijuana, so the remainder is excised from the warrant. Nevertheless, the police were properly in defendant’s home on the warrant, and they could seize other drugs in plain view and as inevitable discovery. Commonwealth v. Anderson, 2012 PA Super 65, 2012 Pa. Super. LEXIS 103 (March 19, 2012).

Two people lived at defendant’s house besides him, and one of the others granted consent. There was no reason to doubt their authority to consent. Smallfoot v. State, 2012 WY 39, 2012 Wyo. LEXIS 41 (March 16, 2012).*

The district judge does not need to say that a de novo review was done because it is presumed that it was. Defendant was removed from the house and another officer stayed behind to ask about others in the house, and then a plain view occurred. It was reasonable. United States v. Ginn, 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 5627 (8th Cir. March 19, 2012) (unpublished).*

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