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...police to seize not only weapons but also anything else "the possession of which may constitute a crime." In the Peters case, dissenting Judge Stanley H. Fuld protested that the Fourth Amendment guarantee against "unreasonable searches and seizures" now means that any search made without the authority of a warrant is "reasonable only if conducted as incident to a lawful arrest" based on probable cause-something Patrolman Lasky admittedly did not have until after his frisk produced not a weapon but burglar's tools...
...decision to the U.S. Supreme Court, which has yet to rule on stop-and-frisk. If the court takes the case, the key issue may well be whether a person stopped for questioning and frisking is actually under arrest-for it is only lawful arrest, with or without a warrant, that carries with it the right to make a search "incident" to that arrest. Without grounds for arrest, police cannot simply search a person and then use whatever evidence they happen to find. In short, a search cannot be justified by its fruits alone. Yet stop-and-frisk laws...
...course this year was Scotland's Muirfield links beside the Firth of Forth, a seaside torture pit that resembles Verdun after the battle. Bunk ers like shell craters pock the narrow fairways, and the thick, encroaching rough grows three feet high in spots. "You need a search warrant to get in that stuff," complained South Africa's Harold Henning. Adding to the misery, the howling winds dried the already fast greens to billiard-table speed. "It'll be the same for everybody," sighed Nicklaus. "That's the only thing you can say in its favor...
...Fourth Amendment admits few exceptions to its stern command that police get judge-signed warrants before searching private homes. When police arrest a suspected felon in a private place, for example, they can then search the immediate premises without a warrant. But they cannot first search hundreds of homes in a blind effort to find him. In short, they must have a warrant to enter a private home unless they have "probable cause" to believe that the suspect is already there...
...that all searches and seizures are not prohibited-only those "not justified in the circumstances" or "made in an improper manner." In this case, he said, the policeman who ordered the blood test had ample reason to believe the defendant was drunk. Had he taken time to get a warrant, the evidence might have vanished. Besides, the blood was taken in a hospital, under hygienic conditions...