Another Wonder Winner from the Land of the World's Stupidest Criminals:

A guy in a pickup gave a ride to a teenaged girl, but instead of driving her home, he turned into a forest trail and attempted to assault her. She got away and hid.

Meanwhile, this idiot couldn't find his way out of the forest trail. So what does he do? He calls the Sheriff's Department and asks for emergency assistance!! Deputy shows up, tracking the guy's cell phone, and the girl jumps out of hiding and accuses him.

Guy was arrested and couldn't make bail. Pleaded not guilty, and turned down a plea bargain at first. Was in jail for a couple of years. Finally took a plea bargain--judge sentenced him to time served in the county jail and put him on probation/counseling. A really lenient sentence around here. So, the idiot fails to make his probation visits. Goes back into jail.

SCOTUS gets free speech case:

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/online-speech-case-heads-to-high-court/ar-BBg8kbS

Our local newspaper in this part of northern AZ often has stories about local or state police pulling over a driver on a minor traffic offense, then their drug sniffing dogs alert on pot, heroin or meth concealed in the cars. Often it looks like DWH (Driving While Hispanic), but just as many whites get nailed, too.

In today's paper, a middle-aged white guy was pulled over for "expired registration" (a postage-stamp-sized sticker on the license plate whose color changes from year to year); and a young white woman who "failed to signal a lane change" on an Interstate. In both cases, the K9's alerted, and the cops found felony quantities of meth and pot. I wonder what made the cops put the dogs on those cars.

Any claim to privacy for drivers is pretty much eroded. There is a legal fiction out there which holds that driving is a privilege, not a right. With that, the police have a broad ability to conduct warrantless searches on the most specious grounds.

Thanks go out to the media, the leftists and race hustlers that essentially pushed a narrative of "cops are hunting black children" for the last two months. You really think you can make outrageous claims like that and not have people respond. Under your worldview this guy was completely justified if cops are really the white monsters you claim they are.

Their blood is on your hands.

Any claim to privacy for drivers is pretty much eroded. There is a legal fiction out there which holds that driving is a privilege, not a right. With that, the police have a broad ability to conduct warrantless searches on the most specious grounds.

whatever happened to the 4th amendement? U.S. constitution amendment iv " the right of the people to be secure in their persons,houses, papers, and affects, against unreasonable searches, and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particulary describing the place to be searched,and the persons or things to be seized"

according to the U.S. constitution, this amendment must apply to all searches, or they are not legal!

Well, it looks like SCOTUS will finally deal with the subject of same sex marriage.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/16/politics/court-gay-marriage/index.html

the dude abides 87, I think what you are saying is if a cop says," I smell pot" he has a reason to search your car. again, according to amendment 4 of the US constitution that is not a legal search.

If they have no probable cause for a K9 unit or if you refuse a search and if nothing illegal is in plain sight, it is an illegal search and seizure. Anything they find should not hold up in court.

Al Sharpton is supporting the alleged serial rapist Bill Cosby now. I wonder if it has anything to do with his skin color?

That's not entirely true.
A dog sniffing your car from the outside requires no probable cause greater than a legitimate traffic stop.
It only becomes unreasonable if it materially lengthens the duration of the stop i.e. you have to stand around cooling your heels waiting for the dog to get there.
Illinois v Caballes

If that dog's training is up to snuff, the dog's alert is sufficient probable cause to rummage through your vehicle.

Florida v Harris

Thank you for correcting me. That would explain why you see dogs at immigration and DUI checkpoints. I guess what it comes down to is, if they do not have probable cause what is an unreasonable amout of time

and most cops don't even know anything about the constitution.