{"id":15132,"date":"2014-12-22T15:58:21","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T20:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15132"},"modified":"2014-12-22T15:58:21","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T20:58:21","slug":"reason-com-sotomayor-is-right-scotus-gave-too-much-leeway-to-the-police-in-heien-v-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15132","title":{"rendered":"Reason.com: Sotomayor Is Right: SCOTUS Gave Too Much Leeway to the Police in Heien v. North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reason.com: <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/22\/sotomayor-is-right-scotus-gave-too-much\">Sotomayor Is Right: SCOTUS Gave Too Much Leeway to the Police in Heien v. North Carolina<\/a> by Damon Root:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last week the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 8-1 in favor of the police in a Fourth Amendment case in which the arresting officer&#8217;s &#8220;mistake of law&#8221; led him to conduct an erroneous traffic stop (and subsequent car search) based on a non-existent legal offense. Put simply, the officer in Heien v. North Carolina stopped a car for driving with a single busted brake light when it is not actually illegal to drive in that state with a single busted brake light. According to the Supreme Court, however, &#8220;because the officer\u2019s mistake about the brake-light law was reasonable, the stop in this case was lawful under the Fourth Amendment.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reason.com: Sotomayor Is Right: SCOTUS Gave Too Much Leeway to the Police in Heien v. North Carolina by Damon Root: Last week the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 8-1 in favor of the police in a Fourth Amendment case in which &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15132\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15133,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15132\/revisions\/15133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}