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Title: Justices Allow Search if Police Hear Evidence Being Destroyed
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NY Times
URL Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/17/us/17scotus.html?_r=1&hp
Published: May 16, 2011
Author: NY Times
Post Date: 2011-05-16 15:41:55 by go65
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Views: 1738
Comments: 2
WASHINGTON — The police do not need a warrant to enter a home if they smell burning marijuana, knock loudly, announce themselves and hear what they think is the sound of evidence being destroyed, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday in an 8-to-1 decision. The issue as framed by the majority was a narrow one. It assumed that there was good reason to think evidence was being destroyed, and asked only whether the conduct of the police had impermissibly caused the destruction. Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., writing for the majority, said police officers do not violate the Fourth Amendment’s ban on unreasonable searches by kicking down a door after the occupants of an apartment react to hearing that officers are there by seeming to destroy evidence. In dissent, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote that the majority had handed the police an important new tool.
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#1. To: go65 (#0)
Just the smoke is enough to prove they were destroying evidence. Up in smoke. Flushing the toilet is enough for them to break down your door. Check for cops listening, before you engage in suspicious activity like flushing your toilet!
I recall a re-run of MASH I saw where this uber right winger named Colonel Flagg... How long do these asshole thugs think people are gonna' TAKE this? How can they be so bloody STUPID? (((shaking head in disgust)))
List of those unable to think: Bumper sticker on DwarF's car:smell burning marijuana
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
Godwinson posted on 2011-02-23 11:47:32 ET
http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=18011&Disp=46#C46
#2. To: hondo68 (#1)
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