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[E. W. Johnson via Peace-discuss]

"I got the hell out of Ohio."

-Lo, the Former Egyptian,
H. Allen Smith, 1947.

On 12/17/2014 06:36 AM, David Green via Peace-discuss wrote:
> Supreme Court Lets Cops Stop People Based on Ignorance of Law
> *The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled police officers can conduct illegal 
> traffic stops based on wrongful interpretations of the law.* The case 
> involved a man who was pulled over in North Carolina for having a 
> broken tail light, even though a single broken tail light is not a 
> violation in North Carolina. Police searched the man’s car and found 
> cocaine, resulting in a cocaine-trafficking conviction. In an 8-to-1 
> decision, the Supreme Court upheld the conviction, saying the 
> officer’s mistake was "reasonable." In a lone dissent, Justice Sonia 
> Sotomayor wrote, "One wonders how a citizen seeking to be law-abiding 
> and to structure his or her behavior to avoid these invasive, 
> frightening, and humiliating encounters could do so."
>
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