Posted on 12/22/2001 10:10:07 AM PST by janeliberty
"On December 10, the U.S. Supreme Court unamminously decided to allow police to make America safer. It decided that the homes of people on probation could be searched by police investigating new crimes. The court reversed a lower court's decision that found theat police violated the Constitution when they searched without a warrant the home of a man sentenced to probation for and unrelated crime.(Emphasis added) Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote that the government's "interest in apprehending violators of the criminal law, thereby protecting potential victims of criminal enterprise, may therefore justifiably focus on probationers in a way that it does not on the ordinary citizen."
Is the court stretching the "unreasonable" word in the 4th Amendment to the max? Or is the max yet to come?
They could be searched in jail if they wish to remain there.
For all intents and purposes, probationers are considered to be "prisoners under sentence." If they don't want to be on probation, they could ask their probation be revoked. In Wisconsin, if they had an imposed but stayed sentence, they start serving the jail or prison sentence the judge imposed (do not pass Go, go directly to jail). If the judge withheld sentence, they go before the judge so the judge can impose a sentence and they do their time.
Don't to the crime if you can't do the time.
One might wish. The punishment for some
crimes outlives the sentencing, even in the US.
Bingo!
You have it partly right. I really don't care if the white hot spotlight is focused on every Arab/Middle Eastern emigrant in the U.S. Turn the heat up! They hate us and they hate our Judeo-Christian, Greco-Roman heritage. Screw-'em!
Some crimes carry punishment that continues after
their debt to society has been paid.
Ahhh, Orwell.
How about this idea. Release no prisoners who are not 'due' the restorations of all thier rights. Keep prison inside the prison, I don't want to live alongside a 'punishment administration'. It's inevitable mistakes are an infringement on the 'free' world.
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