{"id":22732,"date":"2016-06-26T09:21:36","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T14:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=22732"},"modified":"2016-06-26T12:45:19","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T17:45:19","slug":"hot-air-the-fourth-amendment-wasnt-created-to-protect-the-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=22732","title":{"rendered":"Hot Air: The Fourth Amendment wasn\u2019t created to protect the guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hot Air: <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2016\/06\/26\/the-fourth-amendment-wasnt-created-to-protect-the-guilty\/\">The Fourth Amendment wasn\u2019t created to protect the guilty<\/a> by Jazz Shaw:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Libertarians are up in arms over yet another Supreme Court decision this week which involves the question of when police are allowed to use evidence of a crime in the prosecution of a suspect. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>And the part of these arguments where Libertarians carp about evidence being found drives me further up the wall. Doug references, \u201claw enforcement acting illegally and using whatever evidence they find however they wish.\u201d Well\u2026 yes! Are we really to interpret the Fourth Amendment as meaning that law enforcement must ignore any and all evidence they find unless they already had reason to believe that such evidence would be found? If a cop pulls you over for a busted taillight, strolls up to issue you a ticket and, oh, by the way, notices that there\u2019s a headless corpse in the back seat of your car, do prosecutors have to throw out the existence of the body at your murder trial because they weren\u2019t expecting to find it?<\/p>\n<p>This is madness. The Bill of Rights was created to protect the innocent from the unchained power of the government, not to act as some sort of carnival dodge which should allow the guilty to walk free.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I thought it was designed to protect everybody. If there is a &#8220;guilty defendant exception&#8221; to the Fourth Amendment, then the Fourth Amendment ceases to exist because all searches are valid because the ends justifies the means.<\/p>\n<p>Aptly titled website, however.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot Air: The Fourth Amendment wasn\u2019t created to protect the guilty by Jazz Shaw:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scotus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22732"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22741,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22732\/revisions\/22741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}