"The law and the Fourth Amendment (against unreasonable searches and seizures) are not meant to be get-out-of-jail-free passes," said Smith, who is appealing Skahan's ruling. "Laws are there to protect the citizens of Tennessee from persons possessing 33 pounds of cocaine."I beg to differ. 33 pounds of cocaine is bad. Tyranny at the hands of the State is worse.
Exactly!
Yet even a surprising amount of (conservative?) FReepers will slam the judge for throwing out a case where the item in question was obtained by illegal search and seizure.