"Justice" Alito gets rare public bitchslap

[RobDownSouth]

The absence of "Justice" Scalia is already being felt on teh Supreme Court.

The state of Utah presented a case yesterday that was tailor made to dismantle the "exclusionary clause" (which states that police cannot commit crimes to obtain evidence).

Justices Sotomajor and Kagan annihilated the state's case, and "Justice" Alito tried to make a late save. Alito swore that courts wouldn't go out of their way to obtain arrest warrants against black men, simply because they missed court dates.

Kagan said, incredulously, that she was flabbergasted to learn that Alito didn't realize that "failure to appear" in court now automatically results in a warrant being issued and has been this way for many many years.

Alito turned red and didn't mutter a single word the rest of the day.

LINK

#BrandNewDay

 

[NOIRTRASH]

The absence of "Justice" Scalia is already being felt on teh Supreme Court.

The state of Utah presented a case yesterday that was tailor made to dismantle the "exclusionary clause" (which states that police cannot commit crimes to obtain evidence).

Justices Sotomajor and Kagan annihilated the state's case, and "Justice" Alito tried to make a late save. Alito swore that courts wouldn't go out of their way to obtain arrest warrants against black men, simply because they missed court dates.

Kagan said, incredulously, that she was flabbergasted to learn that Alito didn't realize that "failure to appear" in court now automatically results in a warrant being issued and has been this way for many many years.

Alito turned red and didn't mutter a single word the rest of the day.

LINK

#BrandNewDay

Both are right, Prince Dum Fuck.

On a few occasiones, in court, I noticed the judge that Sambo had active warrants, and the judge ignored me.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Utah v. Strieff

Mark Joseph Stern of Slate listens to the arguments presented on
February 22, 2016

The Fourth Amendment prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures.

The Supreme Court has created an “attenuation” exception to the rule.

Under attenuation doctrine, evidence discovered through police misconduct is still admissible if the link between the police illegality and the evidence itself has been sufficiently weakened, usually by time or interceding events.

But the court has failed to explain how much time must pass, or which events must occur, before illegally obtained evidence becomes legal once again.

More recently, the court has switched tacks and decided that attenuation kicks in—and evidence becomes admissible—if suppressing the evidence would fail to serve any deterrent purpose.

"If officers can justify an illegal seizure whenever the individual they detain turns out to have an arrest warrant, then there’s little stopping them from detaining whomever they want. "


Tyler Green wants the court to adopt a general rule that once an officer has discovered an outstanding arrest warrant, the “taint” of his initial illegality dissipates.

Justice Sotomayor's question-

“If we announce your rule what stops us from becoming a police state and just having the police stand on the corner down here and stop every person, ask them for identification, put it through—and if a warrant comes up, searching them?”

/end Sotomayor's question


Tyler Green's defensive answer-
"An officer can never count on finding a warrant, so there is no incentive to make that stop.”

/end Tyler Green's defensive answer

Justice Sotomayor's exposure of the kernel of truth, to light


“If you have a town like Ferguson,” Sotomayor said, (referring to the Missouri city with a documented history of predatory policing), “where 80 percent of the residents have five minor traffic warrants out, there may be a very good incentive for just standing on the street corner in Ferguson and asking every citizen:

Give me your ID. Let me see your name. And let me hope, because I have an 80 percent chance that you’re going to have a warrant.”

/end Justice Sotomayor's...


Justice Alito-

"If the officer makes an illegal stop, the officer exposes himself or herself to all sorts of consequences!”

/end Justice Alito comment


Justice Alito attempts to ridicule Watt’s deterrence arguments-

“Do you think the judges in traffic courts are going to start issuing lots of warrants because they want to provide a basis for randomly stopping people?”

/end Alito attempt to ridicule Watt’s deterrence arguments


Justice Sotomayor's spontaneous and inspired comment-

“I’m very surprised, that Justice Alito doesn’t know that most of these warrants are automatic. If you don’t pay your fine within a certain amount of days, they’re issued virtually automatically."


/ end Justice Sotomayor's spontaneous and inspired comment


Justice Elena Kagan lends support to Justice Sotomayor’s point.

“If you’re policing a community where there is some significant percentage of people who have arrest warrants out on them, itt really does increase your incentive to make that stop on the chance that there will be a warrant that will allow you to search and admit whatever evidence you gained in that search.”


http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...eff_the_supreme_court_s_liberals_spoke.2.html


The court’s liberals think that Utah’s rule would give officers a new reason to stop anybody and run a warrant check: If a warrant turns up, the illegality of the initial stop will be dissolved, and the officer can search his arrestee. Thus, to deter this behavior, the court should refuse to extend the attenuation doctrine. The conservatives, on the other hand, doubt that officers target communities where people have lots of arrest warrants, and doubt that applying the exclusionary rule here would deter police misconduct.

 

[ishtat]

Amidst all the nonsense following Scalia's death, it's been easy to forget that Scalia, whatever his political/social opinions was probably the Courts most talented lawyer and Alito remains its most partisan member.

Alito complicates the situation despite being a second rate lawyer, by being a first rate cross examiner - generally the best on the court. He is very tough in questioning lawyers. His written judgments are poor, but his examination skills show that the best bench has a mix of skills.

Alito is the judge for Corporate interests - look at his record. Scalia could be surprisingly liberal on occasion, for example, his views on privacy issues.

 

[about_average]

Amidst all the nonsense following Scalia's death, it's been easy to forget that Scalia, whatever his political/social opinions was probably the Courts most talented lawyer and Alito remains its most partisan member.

I find that very difficult to reconcile with the fact that he believed it was not unconstitutional to execute someone convicted of a capital offense even if new evidence comes to light that the person is innocent.

Or that states should have the right to criminalize oral sex because sodomy is part of the homosexual agenda, which sort of flies in the face of his other thoughts about privacy. The fact that he couldn't see the contradiction is dumbfounding.
Actually I think he could see it quite well, you'd have to be an idiot not to. It was his religious beliefs that allowed him to ignore his hypocrisy.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Justice Sotomayor's question-

“If we announce your rule what stops us from becoming a police state and just having the police stand on the corner down here and stop every person, ask them for identification, put it through—and if a warrant comes up, searching them?”


What! Your police can't do this?! Can't just stop you for a document check?! Can't pull you over because you look scroungy, long haired or unshaven?! They can up here?

Can't pull you over for being black! Or not supposed to anyways.

But can check your id if you are all blinged up and strutting like a wannabee. Or if your pants hang too low regardless of colour or ethnicity.

All they need is a reason. Document check is valid. All persons must posses valid ID of some kind. It a misdemeanour fine. Insurance and registration checks are valid answer as to why when pulled over.

Peace, order and good government with a healthy dash of law and order.

 

[JackLuis]

Justice Sotomayor's question-
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Peace, order and good government with a healthy dash of law and order.

You'll love Mississippi then.