Hey, lets just search everybody, how about?
Supreme Court says police may search even if arrest invalid
The Supreme Court affirmed Wednesday 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 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 police to issue a court summons and let the driver go.
Instead, city detectives arrested Moore and prosecutors say that drugs taken from him in a subsequent search can be used against him as evidence.</em>
Why not just stop people at random, strip ‘em, and go from there? Why bother with this petty middle step of arresting them? I mean, when I think suspended license, my next thought is always crackhead. Evidently the state is infallible, so I’ll just hush.
