Interesting search and seizure situation Options

[pebkac]

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/06/a...ls_court_r.html

Ok,

1) This basically gives the police the right to wiretap or search anyone without a warrant.

2) This is definitely not the right way for our police to operate even if it is constitutional. I mean, imagine if someone had been hurt. At the very minimum, our tax dollars are going to fix the car the police just damaged.

[James]

1) Police have always had this right to search without a warrant.

2) Our tax dollars are going to put this guy in jail, not fix his car. I highly doubt anyone was in any danger. Police officers have more driving experience than anyone else I can think of short of truckers, but that's a different kind of driving. It's a clever way to accomplish what needed to be accomplished without jeopardizing the rest of the case. Never thought I'd see innovation come out of a police department, even if it's at the federal level

[pebkac]

1) Police have always had this right to search without a warrant.

2) Our tax dollars are going to put this guy in jail, not fix his car. I highly doubt anyone was in any danger. Police officers have more driving experience than anyone else I can think of short of truckers, but that's a different kind of driving. It's a clever way to accomplish what needed to be accomplished without jeopardizing the rest of the case. Never thought I'd see innovation come out of a police department, even if it's at the federal level

No, cops being able to search a car without a warrant is a fairly new thing. I mean, warrants ARE in the constitution. And even now, those searches are only under certain circumstances and with probable cause. For example, a cop can pull you over if you have a broken tail light and search you if he feels he has probable cause.

This case is more of an example of a cop breaking the tail light and then pulling them over for the broken tail light.