[TurboZamboni]

full title: "Supreme Court Rules 8-1 Citizens Have No Protection Against 4th Amendment Violations by Police Ignorant of the Law"

[old curmudgeon]

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.

[amihow]

What ever happened to the fruit of the poisonous tree?

[traderrob6]

Interesting, the vote breakdown is perplexing.

[Politicalkiddo]

“Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the Court’s lone dissenter....”

Wow. This is truly messed up.

[Star Traveler]

There are going to be a lot of Freepers happy about that ... the ones who think that crooks should have no constitutional rights ... :-) ...

[Brother Cracker]

[doc1019]

Somebody lost the US Constitution? Seems it has been lost, after all nobody seems to be able to find it.

[2ndDivisionVet]

“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

[PCPOET7]

I think the supreme court got it wrong on this one. my fear is that it will cause a corruption of the police departments maybe not now but 20 years from now. I was once the target of a police officer that was doing what could be best called community policing. I left my house at one in the morning to walk to the store. I forgot my wallet and was stopped by a cop who proceeded to question me for ten minutes. looking for a reason to take me into the police station after 1o minutes of this I told him I was not answering any more questions the cop got real hostile with me because I was now scared of the cop I allowed him to search me. he did nothing was on me. some other stuff happened but eventually I was allowed to leave. Later on I would find out that the reason all this took place was that the cops wanted to force out of the neighborhood my landlord son who is best described as a low level criminal. I could see that cop lying about a stop being because I had done something illegal and planting something. we have to hold police officers to a higher standard the a criminal.

[Secret Agent Man]

if cops can ignore the law and scotus can by claiming “reasonableness” in misunderstanding the law, everyone can because this ruling decares the rule of law meaningless.

aka, if cops can misunderstand the law and that’s okay, all citizens can misunderstand the law and it’s okay. either we can all’have the excuse of ignorance, or none can.

[SkyDancer]

Okay - so a reasonable mistake can be a homeowner who blasts a few cops coming through the front door yelling they’re cops and the homeowner doesn’t believe them because it’s happened to others before ....

[Secret Agent Man]

they are trying to destroy color of law charges against officers who violate rights of citizens.

[lightman]

OBL unilaterally repealed the 4th Amendment on 9-11-01.

[tacticalogic]

How did we come to have laws that can’t reasonably be expected to be understood by the people who are supposed to be enforcing them?

[BuckeyeTexan]

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[bigbob]

Only the Wise Latina, eh?

[Deagle]

Just great! So, the coming police state is justified by our own Supreme Court! We are on our way to anarchy...

Justice by and for the people seems to be a long way from true today. Just remember this ruling in the future.

[M Kehoe]

Good morning.

This post made me recall an incident that happened to me and a friend of mine in December 1995. We were traveling from Richmond VA to DC. We were in my Jeep Cherokee on U.S.1 getting ready to turn to go back on 95 near Bowling Green. I noticed in my mirror two VA state trooper cars, but didn't think anything of it.

As were approaching the turn, two more State troopers were coming in the opposite direction. The troopers behind us turned on their lights, as did the troopers in front of us. I pulled slowiy to the side of the road and stopped, hands on the steering wheel.

They came to the vehicle with weapons drawn. Never had that happen before. We were told to exit the vehicle, and were kept apart from each other.

One trooper asked if he could search the vehicle, and I asked if he had a warrant. He said no, but he could easily get one.

Two hours later he had a valid warrant, and they preceded to tear my vehicle apart.

After searching both of us, and the vehicle (finding nothing), he told us they were sorry. I said ok, you are going to put the Jeep back together, right? He said no, have a good day and left.

Needless to say that I was pissed off.

5.56mm

[rollo tomasi]

Heien waived Fourth Amendment protections by consenting to the search. North Carolina did not have a State Law against “good faith” stops.

[novemberslady]

People no longer care what the egos in black robes think.

Isn't it sad that their opinions matter more than the bill of rights...
or do they?