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In a truly bipartisan 5-4 vote, SCOTUS upholds right to privacy in our homes.
Supreme Court Limits Drug-Sniffing Dog Usage By Police « CBS Miami
Talk about an oddly flavored majority. Staunch conservatives, Thomas and Scalia, agreeing with the most liberal contingent on the court: the three women.
Supreme Court Limits Drug-Sniffing Dog Usage By Police « CBS Miami
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – The United States Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that police must first get a search warrant before bringing drug-sniffing police dogs onto a suspects property.
...“The police cannot, without a warrant based on probable cause, hang around on the lawn or in the side garden, trawling for evidence and perhaps peering into the windows of the home,” Justice Antonin Scalia said for the majority. “And the officers here had all four of their feet and all four of their companion’s, planted firmly on that curtilage — the front porch is the classic example of an area intimately associated with the life of the home.”
He was joined in his opinion by Justices Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.
Talk about an oddly flavored majority. Staunch conservatives, Thomas and Scalia, agreeing with the most liberal contingent on the court: the three women.