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Supreme Court Rules 8-1 Citizens Have No Protection Against 4th Amendment Violations by Police
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| 12-26-14
| John Whitehead
Posted on 12/26/2014 7:31:29 PM PST by TurboZamboni
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full title: "Supreme Court Rules 8-1 Citizens Have No Protection Against 4th Amendment Violations by Police Ignorant of the Law"
To: TurboZamboni
So what this means is that a cop has no reason to even study the law.
If you don’t like the guy’s looks, just search him, arrest him and let the court figure it out.
To: TurboZamboni
What ever happened to the fruit of the poisonous tree?
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posted on
12/26/2014 7:41:04 PM PST
by
amihow
To: TurboZamboni
Interesting, the vote breakdown is perplexing.
To: old curmudgeon
So when can we start rifling through the judges bank accounts and homes?
To: TurboZamboni
“Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the Court’s lone dissenter....”
Wow. This is truly messed up.
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posted on
12/26/2014 7:43:12 PM PST
by
Politicalkiddo
("How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!" - Benjamin Franklin)
To: amihow
It’s delicious. So says the USSC.
To: old curmudgeon
Only citizens get in trouble for not knowing the law. The cops and the elite can do as they please.
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posted on
12/26/2014 7:45:25 PM PST
by
Politicalkiddo
("How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!" - Benjamin Franklin)
To: old curmudgeon
No, it does not.
At the time of the stop, there was no reason to believe only one working light was required. AFTER THE STOP, a court case was decided by a lower court that interpreted the law to mean only one light was required. Another passage in the same law strongly indicates the lower court decided incorrectly. The NC Supreme Court was not asked to rule on the validity of the lower court’s interpretation, so they did not.
In any case, it was completely & 100% reasonable for a cop to interpret NC law as requiring all the lights to work AT THE TIME THE INCIDENT TOOK PLACE. No cop can be required to outguess what a future court ruling might decide.
Further, there is no constitutional right to not be stopped. A cop can stop you for any reason and not violate your rights. He has not arrested you, nor has the state punished you in any way. There is no constitutional right to not be pulled over. There never has been.
Once you have been pulled over, if you then give the police permission to search your car, the search is not illegal or unconstitutional. Why? Because you gave permission.
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posted on
12/26/2014 7:46:05 PM PST
by
Mr Rogers
(Can you remember what America was like in 2004?)
To: TurboZamboni
There are going to be a lot of Freepers happy about that ... the ones who think that crooks should have no constitutional rights ... :-) ...
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posted on
12/26/2014 7:47:24 PM PST
by
Star Traveler
(Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
To: traderrob6
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posted on
12/26/2014 7:49:07 PM PST
by
Mr Rogers
(Can you remember what America was like in 2004?)
To: amihow
Someone forgot to water it with blood of tyrants?
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posted on
12/26/2014 7:50:26 PM PST
by
TurboZamboni
(Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
To: Mr Rogers
The “good faith” exception to search has already been in existence for years. This is nothing new.
To: jsanders2001
Great post. Probable.
This is going to end badly.
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posted on
12/26/2014 7:51:34 PM PST
by
combat_boots
(The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
To: Mr Rogers
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posted on
12/26/2014 7:51:59 PM PST
by
Politicalkiddo
("How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!" - Benjamin Franklin)
To: jsanders2001
When you get over the fence, past the dogs, security system, and armed guard you’re paying for.
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posted on
12/26/2014 7:52:20 PM PST
by
TurboZamboni
(Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
To: TurboZamboni
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posted on
12/26/2014 7:52:58 PM PST
by
Brother Cracker
(You are more likely to find krugerrands in a Cracker Jack box than 22 ammo at Wal-Mart)
To: TurboZamboni
Somebody lost the US Constitution? Seems it has been lost, after all nobody seems to be able to find it.
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posted on
12/26/2014 7:53:11 PM PST
by
doc1019
To: TurboZamboni
And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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posted on
12/26/2014 7:55:38 PM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
To: Mr Rogers
I love threads like this. FReepers fly off the handle based upon what they read in a blog, and never bother to read the opinion in the first place.
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posted on
12/26/2014 7:56:52 PM PST
by
1rudeboy
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