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Utah v. Strieff

5-4

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The Fourth Amendment Protects Against Unreasonable Searches and Seizures

The Fourth Amendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures. When police stop you on the street, they need reasonable suspicion that you are engaging in criminal conduct. If they stop you without reasonable suspicion, that is an illegal stop. All this guy was doing was leaving a house that some cop thought might be the location of drug sales. They had nothing else to go on besides some speculation. That's not constitutional. But Clarence Thomas, who writes the majority opinion, says that that doesn't matter.

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