Police can use evidence found during illegal stops, Supreme Court rules
by Xeni Jardin from Boing Boing on (#1HVRW)
The U.S. Supreme Court today delivered a damaging blow to the Fourth Amendment "by making it even easier for law enforcement to evade its requirement that stops be based on reasonable suspicion," as a New York Times editorial puts it.
Justices ruled 5 to 3 [PDF] that a police officer's illegal stop of a man on the street should not prevent using against him any evidence obtained from a search connected to that stop.