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The undercover sting operation certainly meant well. Legal counselors looking for expulsion of charges against more than 43 Chicago-area defendants are citing to a study demonstrating a pattern of bias in the choice of targets for stash-house drug stings.

People who are forced by police officers and other law enforcement members to unlock and decrypt their phones can use the Fifth Amendment privilege to protect themselves from self-incrimination.

A new law is encouraging blood draws for drunk driving arrests to be carried out in police stations- a controlled environment- rather than in frenzied hospital rooms.