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To all parents of school-age children attending Wyoming public schools, beware: Wyoming law enforcement can and will pul...
10/14/2024

To all parents of school-age children attending Wyoming public schools, beware: Wyoming law enforcement can and will pull your children out of class to interview them without your permission. You may wonder to yourself: but don’t they need my permission to talk to my child? And the answer is, surprisingly, no. They can just do it. You may further wonder: but they need to at least notify me, right?...

To all parents of school-age children attending Wyoming public schools, beware: Wyoming law enforcement can and will pull your children out of class to interview them without your permission. You m…

In Wyoming, all (adult) criminal cases begin in the circuit court. But only misdemeanors stay circuit court. This post i...
03/18/2024

In Wyoming, all (adult) criminal cases begin in the circuit court. But only misdemeanors stay circuit court. This post is about best practices for a single jurisdiction in Wyoming -- the circuit court in Natrona County, which oversees cases filed in the Seventh Judicial District. Natrona County covers Casper, Evansville, Mills, and Bar Nunn. It is one the most populated counties in Wyoming....

In Wyoming, all (adult) criminal cases begin in the circuit court. But only misdemeanors stay circuit court. This post is about best practices for a single jurisdiction in Wyoming — the circu…

Well, it has been a busy 2023 and start to 2024. At the end of 2022, I became the managing member of my law firm, Fuller...
03/18/2024

Well, it has been a busy 2023 and start to 2024. At the end of 2022, I became the managing member of my law firm, Fuller & Semerad, LLC. So, 2023 was a year of navigating a new role with greater responsibilities while finishing up some complex and important work and taking on new challenges too. All the while, my wife became pregnant again and just last week we welcomed a beautiful, happy, and healthy baby girl into our lives....

Well, it has been a busy 2023 and start to 2024. At the end of 2022, I became the managing member of my law firm, Fuller & Semerad, LLC. So, 2023 was a year of navigating a new role with greate…

SCOTUS waters down Bruton protections for defendants in joint trials.
06/23/2023

SCOTUS waters down Bruton protections for defendants in joint trials.

Source: ELIZABETH WILLIAMS, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. No changes were made to the original. …

Ryan Semerad's opinion on the Wyoming Federal District Court's corner crossing order.
06/16/2023

Ryan Semerad's opinion on the Wyoming Federal District Court's corner crossing order.

Ryan Semerad’s opinion on the Wyoming Federal District Court’s corner crossing order.

Source: Jarmo Matilainen / Helsingin Sanomat, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons It has been too long since I've writt...
06/07/2023

Source: Jarmo Matilainen / Helsingin Sanomat, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons It has been too long since I've written here. A recent Wyoming Supreme Court case caught my eye and gave me inspiration to add another post today. Today, the Wyoming Supreme Court held that the Wyoming Constitution does not require probable cause or a warrant before a law enforcement officer has a drug dog sniff the exterior of a vehicle....

Source: Jarmo Matilainen / Helsingin Sanomat, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons It has been too long since I’ve written here. A recent Wyoming Supreme Court case caught my eye and gave me …

Wyoming has a new law revoking firearm rights from nonviolent felons so that it can restore these rights later. Is this ...
03/14/2023

Wyoming has a new law revoking firearm rights from nonviolent felons so that it can restore these rights later. Is this law legally sound? (It is.)

Source: United States Senate – Office of Dan Sullivan, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The dust has nearly settled on the 2023 legislative session in Wyoming. However, several laws passe…

A Brief Recap of The Fourth Amendment and Private Businesses
02/09/2023

A Brief Recap of The Fourth Amendment and Private Businesses

Inside a shopping center in PolandSource: WrS.tm.pl, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons On February 8, 2023, Oil City News published a story about a Casper police sergeant who faced a disciplinar…

First of all, I am writing this from my cell phone. So, apologies for formatting issues or typos. Today, the United Stat...
02/03/2023

First of all, I am writing this from my cell phone. So, apologies for formatting issues or typos. Today, the United States Court of Appeals, for the Fifth Circuit, struck down a federal statute that prohibits individuals who are subject to protection orders from possessing fi****ms. And doing so, the court followed the United States Supreme Court’s decision last year in…...

First of all, I am writing this from my cell phone. So, apologies for formatting issues or typos. Today, the United States Court of Appeals, for the Fifth Circuit, struck down a federal statute tha…

Wyoming Supreme Court Clarifies When Miranda Advisements Must Be Given to Suspects
12/13/2022

Wyoming Supreme Court Clarifies When Miranda Advisements Must Be Given to Suspects

Source: The Library of Congress, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons; Selected from “The War of the Nations: Portfolio in Rotogravure Etchings,” published by the New York Times shor…

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