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To: MisterKnowItAll
"The Fourth Amendment doesn't prohibit searches -- just 'unreasonable' ones."

Plain view is reasonable; using specially-tuned biological or mechanical equipment to conduct a search of my property is not.
649 posted on 01/25/2005 8:30:46 AM PST by NJ_gent (Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.)
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To: NJ_gent

'Plain view is reasonable; using specially-tuned biological or mechanical equipment to conduct a search of my property is not.'

Fine -- then you're now claiming the dog sniff is an _unreasonable_ search. This is quite different from your claim (to which I was responding) that the Court said it wasn't a 'search' at all.

Once again, here's a link to the full text of the decision:
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=000&invol=03-923

Anyone who still thinks the SCOTUS denied that a dog sniff constitutes a 'search' is invited to post the relevant excerpt.

As for the reasonableness/unreasonableness of the search: you'll have to do more than assert that the 'search' in this case was 'unreasonable'. A search of your property isn't automatically 'unreasonable' just because it was performed with 'specially-tuned mechanical or biological equipment', under this ruling or any other.


653 posted on 01/25/2005 8:36:45 AM PST by MisterKnowItAll
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