{"id":5841,"date":"2011-07-30T11:10:20","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T10:54:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-30T09:27:00","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5841","title":{"rendered":"Monty Python, John Roberts, and the exclusionary rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a metaphor for the Fourth Amendment and the exclusionary rule consider <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/grbSQ6O6kbs\">\u201cMonty Python and the Holy Grail\u201d (1975), with Eric Idle\u2019s \u201cDead Collector\u201d<\/a> as Chief Justice John Roberts, and the \u201cLarge Man with Dead Body\u201d as Samuel Alito.<\/p>\n<p>The script <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0071853\/quotes?qt=qt0470614\">here<\/a>. An excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019m not dead.<br \/>\n\u2019Ere, he says he&#8217;s not dead.<br \/>\nYes he is.<br \/>\nI\u2019m not.<br \/>\nHe isn\u2019t.<br \/>\nWell, he will be soon, he\u2019s very ill.<br \/>\nI\u2019m getting better.<br \/>\nNo you\u2019re not, you\u2019ll be stone dead in a moment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(In <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/HLgQMtquS6Y\">Spamlot<\/a>, the man says \u201cI\u2019m not dead yet.\u201d)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5841\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5841","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}