U.S. top court backs police in car brake-light confusion case

[UWDude]

http://news.yahoo.com/u-top-court-backs-police-car-brake-light-153707497.html

Synopsis:

-cop pulls over driver in North Carolina for having a tail light out.
-Cop find cocaine.
-Driver goes to court, points out driving with a tail light out in North Carolina is not a traffic or criminal offense (happens to be legal in NC), therefore the traffic stop was illegal, therefore the search illegal.
-Supreme Court rules, 8 to 1, that even though the officer was mistaken about the law, he still had the right to pull the man over and search his car, because he *thought* it was against the law to have a tail light out.
-Driver goes to prison for 2 years.

Yes

Yes

I know

The stupidity.

[dannno]

-Supreme Court rules, 8 to 1, that even though the officer was mistaken about the law, he still had the right to pull the man over and search his car, because he *thought* it was against the law to have a tail light out.

So...what you're saying.....is that ignorance of the law is no excuse for a mundane, but a GREAT excuse for a cop??

Just us?

[specsaregood]

Did the mundane consent to the search of his vehicle?

[Lucille]

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?464878-Supreme-Court-Sides-With-Police-In-4th-Amendment-Case-Arising-from-Officer%92s-%91Mistake-of-Law%92

[PaulConventionWV]

http://news.yahoo.com/u-top-court-backs-police-car-brake-light-153707497.html

Synopsis:

-cop pulls over driver in North Carolina for having a tail light out.
-Cop find cocaine.
-Driver goes to court, points out driving with a tail light out in North Carolina is not a traffic or criminal offense (happens to be legal in NC), therefore the traffic stop was illegal, therefore the search illegal.
-Supreme Court rules, 8 to 1, that even though the officer was mistaken about the law, he still had the right to pull the man over and search his car, because he *thought* it was against the law to have a tail light out.
-Driver goes to prison for 2 years.

Yes

Yes

I know

The stupidity.

The nerve... to say that somebody has a right to search my belongings.

[CaptainAmerica]

"thought it was against the law" XD that sums up your "judicial branch"...its a thuggery branch

[DamianTV]

When will this become "I thought being a Terrorist was against the law"? And the term "Terrorist" is so loosely applied that anyone who has a "wrong opinion" could be considered as such. When does this grow to extend to anything that is thought to be illegal? Will it be extended to include Atheists, Muslims, Libertarians, Brown People, or Conspiracy Theorists? How about a child who disobeys their Teacher? At what point do these dipshits think the line exists? Will they keep moving the line to finally include "illegal for failure to obey your insurance and floss daily"? Will it become "interpreted as illegal" to not speak but to hear the word "Founding Father"?

This is Govt validating its own existence. Just Us, not Justice.

[aGameOfThrones]

so anything a cop thinks is against the law(even when it isn't) you're still fucked.