Unreasonable Search

[Ohiogal]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? ALL

Florida v. Jardines out of the US Supreme Court today. The curtilage (front porch) is part of the house. Drug puppies need to be invited to sniff in order to not run afoul of the Fourth Amendment unless a search warrant has already been granted due to probable cause.

 

[tranquility]

That there is what is called an unusual coalition of justice voting.

Personally, I found the dissent completely unpersuasive. The concurrence seemed the better argument and where I think the law should be. Scalia's opinion? Meh. It wasn't his best.

 

[OHRoadwarrior]

So if they go up there to find a good location to lift their leg to pee and sniff something, they are committing indecent exposure, trespassing and conducting an illegal search.

 

[tranquility]

From the concurrence that would be an illegal search. From Scalia's opinion, that might just be OK. (Where a highly-trained police dog needed to pee and just happened to smell drugs while doing so in the curtilage.)

 

[TigerD]

From the concurrence that would be an illegal search. From Scalia's opinion, that might just be OK. (Where a highly-trained police dog needed to pee and just happened to smell drugs while doing so in the curtilage.)

A person should be able to enjoy the privacy of their home without being peed on by a police officer.

DC

 

[justalayman]

In other news from the SCOTUS:

WASHINGTON—Ten minutes into oral arguments over whether or not homosexuals should be allowed to marry one another, a visibly confounded Supreme Court stopped legal proceedings Tuesday and ruled that gay marriage was “perfectly fine” and that the court could “care less who marries whom.”

“Yeah, of course gay men and women can get married. Who gives a ****?” said Chief Justice John Roberts, who interrupted attorney Charles Cooper’s opening statement defending Proposition 8, which rescinded same-sex couples’ right to marry in California. “Why are we even seriously discussing this?”

Oh, never mind. That was the Onion doing what is does, quite well.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/supreme-court-on-gay-marriage-sure-who-cares,31812/

 

[Ohiogal]

In other news from the SCOTUS:









Oh, never mind. That was the Onion doing what is does, quite well.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/supreme-court-on-gay-marriage-sure-who-cares,31812/

While not quite as humorous, the actual transcripts were still entertaining. Loved the parts about not allowing those over 55 to get married and Strom Thurmond not being there to confirm Justice Kagan. I encourage everyone to read them. (They are located on the United States Supreme Court's official website -- you can also listen to them. I will state that everyone here SHOULD be able to find them.)