In yet another huge blow to our Constitution, the Supreme Court ruled in Jan 2015 that a police officer can violate your 4th Amendment rights if they make a ‘reasonable’ mistake regarding the law.
If you are ignorant of the law, that is no excuse, but if a cop is ignorant of the law, he can violate your rights.
As incredible as it sounds, any cop can ‘play dumb’ and proceed to do anything he wants to you and feel secure that his excuse of ignorance will shield him.
How in the hell can a cop be expected to uphold the law if he doesn’t even know the law?
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Can you get redress for their harm?
Post the 4th amendment on the outside of your house.
If they don’t know the law they should not be cops!!!!
All my life I’ve heard about people being convicted of a crime, even when they didn’t know it was a crime.
All because the law states “ignorance of the law is no excuse” .
Why doesn’t this apply to ignorant cops?
interesting…..ignorance is not an excuse for the common man, but those charged with ENFORCING the law don’t have to KNOW those same laws? what is the Supreme Court smoking???????
Wtf?
Stupid scary
And then we are to respect the law.
Why is it when I break a law that I don’t know yet I get the book thrown at me anyways!!!
This is bs. Cops cannot violate 4th amendment. I hear suppression hearings all the time. Judges are not afraid to dismiss for lack of cause.