You are no longer secure in your person or property from illegal search. The SCOTUS has upheld police powers that allow them to use evidence against you that resulted from and illegal arrest and search!
Court broadens police power
By Pete Yost
April 24, 2008
ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Supreme Court affirmed yesterday that police have the power to conduct searches and seize evidence, even when done during an arrest that turns out to have violated state law.
The unanimous decision comes in a case from Portsmouth, Va., where city detectives seized crack cocaine from a motorist after arresting him on 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 police to issue a court summons and let the driver go.
Instead, city detectives arrested Moore and prosecutors said drugs taken from him in a subsequent search can be used against him as evidence.
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20080424/METRO/520382602/1004
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