[MaxMax]

Oh, NC law says only one light is required. But can they still pull someone over for
having one of those brake lights out?

So an illegal stop led to the consent and discovery. That should nullify anything found.
Am I getting it now?

[Olog-hai]

That’s what the lower NC court decided, but the NC appeals court overturned it.

It’s way more worrisome what Roberts has turned this into, though. It can be interpreted as saying that it’s all right for police to be ignorant of the law so long as the rule of man thus exercised is “reasonable”.