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On Monday, a judge ruled that former Deputy Daniel Wilkey and Deputy Tyler McRae were not liable for an incident that happened back in 2019.
7 posts published by Tim Cushing, Dark Helmet, Mike Masnick, Gretchen Heckmann, and Karl Bode on November 16, 2022
Courts are cool with pretextual stops. As long as a cop can make up a reasonably good excuse for pulling someone over, they can start casting their lines in hopes of bigger fish. Given enough time and bullshit, cops can often talk people into warrantless roadside searches. But the pretext needs to be reasonable. And, thanks to the Supreme Court’s 2015 Rodriguez decision, delaying the stop unreasonably to engage in fishing expeditions is no longer lawful. That’s where these two deputies fucked up. Caught on their own cameras, the deputies ignored the pretext for the stop and tried to con...
Posts about muscular dystrophy written by Tim Cushing
Courts are cool with pretextual stops. As long as a cop can make up a reasonably good excuse for pulling someone over, they can start casting their lines in hopes of bigger fish. Given enough time and bullshit, cops can often talk people into warrantless roadside searches. But the pretext needs to be reasonable. And,…