Aug

17

End The Fiction of the “Consent” Search

Monday, September 21st, 2009 “Consent “is a threadbare fiction which should be eliminated from highway or pedestrian searches. No traveler with a choice wants to be detained for the minutes or hours that searches consume. No one wants the humiliation and spectacle that attaches to the process while he or she sits on the hood [...]

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Aug

11

Challenging Racial Profiles: Attacking Jim Crow on the Interstate

The Champion Magazine | September/October 1999 By William H. Buckman & John Lamberth Jim Crow is alive on America’s highways, trains and in its airports. Minorities are suspect when they appear in public, especially when they exercise the most basic and fundamental freedom of travel.1 In an uncanny likeness to the supposedly dead Jim Crow [...]

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Aug

11

Racial Profiling on South Carolina Interstates

South Carolina Criminal Defense Blog | July 13, 2008 I went to the South Carolina Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Blues, Bar-B-Q and Bar CLE in Greenwood, S.C. last Friday, and had a good time. One way I’ve found to stay excited about criminal defense and to stay current on what everyone else is doing [...]

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Aug

11

New Jersey Agrees to Settle Trooper’s Harassment Suit

The New York Times | October 2, 2007 By Richard G. Jones NEWARK, Oct. 1 — Officials with the New Jersey attorney general’s office said on Monday that the state had agreed to a $400,000 settlement in a lawsuit filed by a former state trooper who said that he was beaten and harassed by members of a secret [...]

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