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Seuss
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Police can search parked cars
#2727570 - 05/25/04 12:22 PM (19 years, 10 months ago) |
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/05/25/scotus.car.searches.ap/index.html
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Police can search a parked car for drugs, guns or other evidence of a crime while arresting a driver or passengers nearby, the Supreme Court ruled Monday.
The high court has already ruled that officers can search a car when arresting someone inside, and the same rule now applies if a motorist or passenger gets out of the car.
The 7-2 ruling addressed a common situation, in which police pull over a suspicious car or come upon it while it is parked. Sometimes motorists get out of the car before an officer approaches, and it was not clear until now whether police had leeway to search the car.
"In all relevant aspects, the arrest of a suspect who is next to a vehicle presents identical concerns regarding officer safety and the destruction of evidence as the arrest of one who is inside the vehicle," Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist wrote.
Once told he is under arrest, a suspect outside a car could still lunge inside for a weapon, Rehnquist wrote.
"It would make little sense to apply two different rules to what is, at bottom, the same situation," Rehnquist wrote for himself and Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Anthony M. Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Stephen Breyer. Justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg agreed with the outcome.
The ruling would apply only when a suspect was arrested close to a car, and would not apply to an abandoned car with no driver or recent occupant in sight.
Justices John Paul Stevens and David Souter dissented.
The new rule invites too many problems, Stevens wrote. "We are not told how recent is recent, or how close is close," he wrote.
The case involved the 2001 search of a Virginia man's gold Lincoln Town Car. He had been driving in Norfolk, Virginia, when an officer noticed his flashy car and ordered a computer check that found the tag was issued for a 1982 Chevrolet. Before the officer could stop Marcus Thornton to give him a ticket, Thornton pulled into a shopping center parking lot and got out.
The officer arrested Thornton after he found marijuana and crack cocaine in Thornton's pocket. After handcuffing Thornton, the officer searched the car and found a gun.
The case is Thornton v. United States, 03-5165.
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Twirling
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Re: Police can search parked cars [Re: Seuss]
#2727764 - 05/25/04 01:07 PM (19 years, 10 months ago) |
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I read that, and was shocked at first because I thought it meant they could search any car they wanted to (by the headline of the article). I'm guessing it only refers to people who step out of their car before asked? Either way, it still sucks.
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Re: Police can search parked cars [Re: Twirling]
#2742428 - 05/28/04 06:16 PM (19 years, 9 months ago) |
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it was meant for that but now if some one gets aressted near your car they have the right to search it... the supreme court sucks ass, i say we abolish goverment and go for anarchy... we'll all die alot sooner, but at least we would go out free
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Re: Police can search parked cars [Re: Jiggly]
#2744803 - 05/29/04 04:12 PM (19 years, 9 months ago) |
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Don't cary more of anything illegal than you can eat.
They should put LSD on flash paper.
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Re: Police can search parked cars [Re: Baby_Hitler]
#2746459 - 05/30/04 11:22 AM (19 years, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
Baby_Hitler said: Don't cary more of anything illegal than you can eat.
They should put LSD on flash paper.
That sir is solid advice.
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Re: Police can search parked cars [Re: Seuss]
#2747490 - 05/30/04 05:36 PM (19 years, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
The new rule invites too many problems, Stevens wrote. "We are not told how recent is recent, or how close is close," he wrote.
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Re: Police can search parked cars [Re: Seuss]
#2750516 - 05/31/04 06:12 PM (19 years, 9 months ago) |
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I think everyone knows where I stand on certain issues, like drugs and government, but I still try to think as fairly and unbias as possible, and with that in mind I think this was a fair ruling. Same rule that they can search you and your surrounding area/property when you're arrested, they just made it clear.
Most of the rulings that people disagree w/ are because of how they work in drug situations, other than that they'd be fine w/ it. Well thats a bias opinion, sorry
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