The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that evidence found after an arrest based on wrong information from police files can be used against a criminal suspect.
In doing so, the SCrOTUS upheld the conviction of a man on gun and drug charges - after he was arrested on a warrant that had been rescinded months earlier.
The Supreme Court's ruling has in effect gutted longstanding constitutional safeguards against police negligence - safeguards that could only be enforced by disqualifying ill-gained evidence.
This ruling also takes away an incentive for police to make sure they keep accurate records.
I think the Supreme Court needs to start printing its rulings on toilet paper as long as it has such a right-wing majority. More urgently, I think the Obama administration would be justified in implementing court-packing.
(Source: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/01/14/washington/AP-Scotus-Evidence.html)
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Supremes say erroneous evidence valid
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