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Why The Newest Supreme Court Ruling Could Make You Scared To Drive
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The Supreme Court has ruled that police only need an anonymous tip – and no other evidence — to pull a vehicle over and search it, the United States Supreme Court has ruled.
The ruling in a case called Prado Navarette et al vs. California drastically expands law enforcement’s ability to stop vehicles.
The case was brought by a man named Lorenzo Prado Navarette, who was pulled over because his truck matched a description from an anonymous 911 caller who said the driver was drunk. Navarette, though, had not been drinking and his driving was not erratic
During the stop the California Highway Patrol found 30 pounds of marijuana in Navarette’s truck and arrested him.
The ruling divided the Supreme Court’s conservative bloc, with Justice Antonin Scalia – a leading conservative – writing the dissent. He wrote a scathing dissent and said the ruling sets a precedent that could be a major threat to individual freedoms.
‘Freedom-Destroying Cocktail’
“The Court’s opinion serves up a freedom-destroying cocktail consisting of two parts patent falsity: (1) that anonymous 911 reports of traffic violations are reliable so long as they correctly identify a car and its location, and (2) that a single instance of careless or reckless driving necessarily supports a reasonable suspicion of drunkenness,” Scalia wrote.
Source: http://www.offthegridnews.com/2014/04/25/why-the-newest-supreme-court-ruling-could-make-you-scared-to-drive/
