Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor made a boisterous dissent in the 5-to-3 ruling on Utah v. Strieff Monday, which weakened the protections against unlawful police searches guaranteed by the Constitution. Eric Strieff was stopped in South Salt Lake City on suspicion of visiting a suspected drug dealer’s house. Based on an unrelated outstanding warrant, police stopped and searched Strieff, finding a small amount of methamphetamine. They then arrested him. Sotomayor said in her dissent, “The mere existence of a warrant not only gives an officer legal cause to arrest and search a person, it also forgives an officer who, with no knowledge of a warrant at all, unlawfully stop a person on a whim or a hunch.” We look at the erosion of the Fourth Amendment on the Lip News with Elliot Hill, Joya Mia Italiano and Nik Zecevic.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/06/utah-streiff-sotomayor/487922/
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