Whren v. United States
5-4
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5 to 4 is a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks. In this case, plainclothes vice cops were patrolling an area in Washington, D.C., that they believed had a high degree of drug activity. When an SUV they were watching made a turn without signaling, the officers pursued it and found crack cocaine. The petitioners in this case argued that the drugs were inadmissible as evidence because the stop had been a pretext for a search. But the Supreme Court disagreed, opening a now heavily traffic drought for police using a minor traffic violation to go fishing for other crimes.
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