Full Disclosure: Cognitive Bias, Informants, and Search Warrant Scrutiny

This article posits that cognitive biases play a significant role in the gap between the rhetoric regarding Fourth Amendment protection and actual practices regarding search warrant scrutiny, particularly for search warrants based on informants’ tips. Specifically, this article examines the ways in...

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1. VerfasserIn: Bowman, Mary (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2013
In:Jahr: 2013
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