U.S. Supreme Court Rules Passengers Can Challenge Searches After Traffic Stops
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Defense attorneys and civil liberties advocates are hailing the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling that passengers in a car pulled over during a traffic stop are seized for purposes of the Fourth Amendment and have the right to challenge the constitutionality of a subsequent search.
"Anyone who has ever been pulled over by the police, or has ridden in a car that has been pulled over, knows that he is not 'free to leave' until the police say so," said Martin S. Pinales, a Cincinnati defense attorney and president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.See the full content of this document
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U.S. Supreme Court Rules Passengers Can Challenge Searches After Traffic Stops
While the holding was narrow - the Court expressly left the door open for law enforcement officials and prosecutors to fight a suppression challenge on other grounds - the decision for the first time establishes that anyone riding in a car stopped by police has the same Fourth Amendment protections as...
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