Yes, there's that Scalia, the well-known pinko commie. -Declan On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 07:44:27PM -0700, atek3 wrote: > what a frigging nightmare, when the only people standing in the way of a > wholesale rape of our civil liberties are leftists. > > atek3 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jim Choate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "The Club Inferno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 2:30 PM > Subject: SCOTUS rulz! (fwd) > > > > > > Where did that scum bag Scalia get the 'in general public use' test? > > > > Geez, these guys make it up as they go along... > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 11:25:19 -0400 (EDT) > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: CDR: SCOTUS rulz! > > > > http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Scotus-Heat-Detector.html > > # > > # June 11, 2001 > > # > > # Court Rules Against Heat-Sensor Searches > > # > > # Filed at 11:03 a.m. ET > > # > > # WASHINGTON (AP) -- Police violate the Constitution if they use > > # a heat-sensing device to peer inside a home without a search > > # warrant, the Supreme Court ruled Monday. > > # > > # An unusual lineup of five justices voted to bolster the Fourth > > # Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and threw > > # out an Oregon man's conviction for growing marijuana. > > # > > # Monday's ruling reversed a lower court decision that said > > # officers' use of a heat-sensing device was not a search of Danny > > # Lee Kyllo's home and therefore they did not need a search warrant. > > # > > # In an opinion written by Justice Antonin Scalia, by many measures > > # the most conservative member of the court, the majority found > > # that the heat detector allowed police to see things they otherwise > > # could not. > > # > > # ``Where, as here, the government uses a device that is not in > > # general public use to explore details of the home that would > > # previously have been unknowable without physical intrusion, the > > # surveillance is a 'search' and is presumptively unreasonable > > # without a warrant,'' Scalia wrote. > > # > > # While the court has previously approved some warrantless searches, > > # this one did not meet tests the court has previously set, Scalia > > # wrote. > > # > > # The decision means the information police gathered with the > > # thermal device -- namely a suspicious pattern of hot spots on > > # the home's exterior walls -- cannot be used against Kyllo. > > # > > # The court sent the case back to lower courts to determine whether > > # police have enough other basis to support the search warrant > > # that was eventually served on Kyllo, and thus whether any of > > # the evidence inside his home can be used against him. > > # > > # Justices Clarence Thomas, David H. Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg > > # and Stephen Breyer joined the majority. > > # > > # Justice John Paul Stevens wrote a dissenting opinion joined by > > # Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, and Justices Sandra Day > > # O'Connor and Anthony M. Kennedy. > > > > > > -- > > ____________________________________________________________________ > > > > "...where annual election ends, tyranny begins;" > > > > Thomas Jefferson & Samuel Adams > > > > The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate > > Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 > > -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------