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Q: can bags found inside an impounded vehicle, during a inventory search be opened up and gone through?

in utah. what is the department standardized policy or practice specifically governing the opening of such containers.

Aric M. Cramer
Aric M. Cramer
answered on Nov 10, 2016

Every department has its own policy. There is no way to answer that question without that information.

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Q: can someone challenge the probable cause to pull over a vehicle when it was a case of mistaken identity?

the descriptions of the people who were wanted, looked nothing like the people in the vehicle. including one of the suspects who was wanted has both arms completely tattooed. the passenger in the vehicle had a wife beater on so the off duty police officer who originally watched these people get in... View More

Aric M. Cramer
Aric M. Cramer
answered on Nov 10, 2016

Probable cause can be challenged. You need to contact an experience criminal defense attorney to assist you.

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Q: what is the difference between " hold for owner impound" and "state impound"?
Aric M. Cramer
Aric M. Cramer
answered on Nov 9, 2016

None that I am aware of. The State impounds a vehichle and holds it for the owner to retrieve it.

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Q: are the police allowed to inventory a vehicle without someone from the tow yard being present prior to impoud
Aric M. Cramer
Aric M. Cramer
answered on Nov 9, 2016

YEs. They do not need an additional witness to do this.

1 Answer | Asked in Constitutional Law for Utah on
Q: what amendment allows congress to remove someone their duties

Mr.mark Smith, a united states congressman, is reputed to have been a member of a neo-nazi fascist organization that renounced the constitution of the united states. what amendment and section in the constitution would allow congress to remove him from his duties. what would be required for removal

Brian K Jackson
Brian K Jackson
answered on Mar 16, 2016

They would have to try him under the impeachment provisions of Article II of the constitution.

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Q: Can my school make me register my religion with the school district?

I made my own religion where I have to ware a hat. The principal said that I have to register it with the school district and then took my hat.

Brian K Jackson
Brian K Jackson
answered on Nov 20, 2015

You would have to prove that it was a religion that actually existed and you in full faith believed that wearing a hat was a part of your religion. If you were doing it just to make an excuse to wear a hat in school and was just using the religion as an excuse then you wouldnt have a case, but no... View More

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Q: how does the guarantee of a public trial limit the powers of the national government?
Robert Jason De Groot
Robert Jason De Groot
answered on Oct 7, 2015

Have you gotten an answer to this yet? A public trial is much better than a trial held in secret.

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Q: How do I go about getting our local fire board to follow the Freedom of Information Act?
Zaven Andranik Sargsian
Zaven Andranik Sargsian
answered on Dec 9, 2013

If the local fire board is, as you say, "local" then you should consider requesting information by using a GRAMA request ("Government Records Access Management Act"), rather than a FOIA. GRAMA can in some ways be thought of as the Utah state-level equivalent of FOIA. More... View More

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Q: What is habeas corpus
Robert Jason De Groot
Robert Jason De Groot
answered on Oct 20, 2015

a writ requiring a person to be brought before a judge or court, especially for investigation of a restraint of the person's liberty, used as a protection against illegal imprisonment.

What? You do not know how to look things up in a dictionary?

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