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Supreme Court allowed warrantless search when exigency is created by police - May 16, 2012 1:00:01 AM
On May 16, 2011, the US Supreme Court ruled 8-1 in Kentucky v. King that exigent circumstances apply when the police do not act in a way that violates the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution. The case involved police smelling marijuana outside an apartment door and kicking down the door after hearing what seemed to be the destroying of evidence. This ruling resolved a circuit court split that included five different tests being used to determine whether the police-created exigency exception applied. The lower court in this specific case used a two-pronged test that determined a warrantless arrest is not allowed when either the police deliberately created the exigency
ICC prosecutor sought Gaddafi arrest warrant for crimes against humanity - May 16, 2012 1:00:00 AM
On May 16, 2011, the International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo sought arrest warrants for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and two others on charges of crimes against humanity for allegedly plotting attacks on Libyan civilians. Ocampo said that the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) was almost prepared for trial and had collected testimony from some who had fled Libya. Previously in April 2011, the OTP said it was planning to seek five arrest warrants and had indicated that his office had uncovered evidence that Gaddafi had planned to attack civilians to forestall revolution in Libya. The ICC launched initial probes into these allegations of crimes against humanity in