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US Supreme Court chips away

By Jeffrey Ivashuk

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WASHINGTON: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that police can conduct searches and seize evidence after arrests that may turn out to have violated state law. The unanimous decision came in a case from Portsmouth, Virginia, where city detectives seized crack cocaine from a motorist after arresting him for a traffic ticket offense. David Lee Moore was pulled over for driving on a suspended license. The violation is a minor crime in Virginia and calls for the police to issue a court summons and to let the driver go.  The Virginia Supreme Court had ruled that the police should have released Moore and that they could not lawfully conduct a search. State law, the Virginia Court said, restricted the officers to issuing a ticket in exchange for a promise to appear later in court...continue to full post

Full post as published by JAABlog on April 24, 2008 (boomark / email).

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