Heien v. North Carolina: Close Enough

[Helena]

http://blog.simplejustice.us/2014/12...-close-enough/

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinion...3-604_ec8f.pdf

...this too fails to appreciate its application in the field, where police have become, at least in their own minds, the arbiters of law at the end of a gun. The Supreme Court has now held that they are, indeed, the arbiters of the law, with the only condition being that they can craft a half-baked, phony, facile excuse for why they got the law wrong. The new test for “reasonableness” under the Fourth Amendment is how good a spin the prosecution and cops can offer for mistakes. As it turns out, this is the one thing that they’re exceptionally good at. The black letter law of Fourth Amendment is now “close enough.”

and for fun, be sure to read the great exchange between FUBAR and Wheeze the People in the comment section.

[MMC]

Close enough eh....Kinda like in horseshoes, and hand grenades, huh?

[Common]

Easy to solve this problem, when youre in trouble call your lawyer and your therapist LEAVE 911 alone it cant be trusted and the police may come to murder you instead of help lol

[Captdon]

http://blog.simplejustice.us/2014/12...-close-enough/

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinion...3-604_ec8f.pdf



and for fun, be sure to read the great exchange between FUBAR and Wheeze the People in the comment section.

What's the problem? Reasonable was the point. The cop has a reason to stop the vehicle. He received permission to search the car.

[Helena]

Easy to solve this problem, when youre in trouble call your lawyer and your therapist LEAVE 911 alone it cant be trusted and the police may come to murder you instead of help lol

I'll leave it to other people to call those on that list. I won't be doing it.

I don't know what 911 had to do with what I posted, either. Do you?

[Helena]

What's the problem? Reasonable was the point. The cop has a reason to stop the vehicle. He received permission to search the car.

I know. I was hung up on that at first, too.