Atwater v. Lago Vista, No. 99-1408 (U.S. Supreme Court) (532 U.S. 318; 121 S.Ct. 1536) (April 24, 2001) (Justice Souter)
Loaded on April 1, 2001
published in Punch and Jurists
April 02, 2001
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Warrants.
Here by a narrow 5 to 4 margin, the Court held that the Fourth Amendment does not forbid a warrantless arrest for minor criminal offenses - even when the arrest serves no discernible state interest and subjects the victim to gratuitous humiliations.
This is an astonishing case in a number …
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