I got this on an e-mail list today:
TODAY'S IMPORTANT OPINIONS U.S. District Court
A police officer violated a man's Fourth Amendment rights when the officer stopped the man on the George Washington Memorial Parkway for a cracked windshield, smelled marijuana when he approached the man, and then proceeded to conduct a body cavity search by the side of the roadway at the tail end of rush hour.
U.S. v. Ford (USDC-ED) (VLW 002-3-347)
A body cavity search by the roadside during rush-hour traffic? Yeah, I should hope that gets thrown out. I'd be willing to bet that the searchee files a § 1983 lawsuit (for violation of civil rights) pretty quickly.
Posted by wasylik at December 4, 2002 10:59 AM | TrackBack