This N. Carolina cop used a
broken tail light as a pretext to stop a car (he probably broke it, himself).
In that state, only ONE working tail light is necessary to make a car “street
legal,” so he had no legal cause to stop the car. When he found drugs in the
car, that could not be used as evidence because his original CAUSE to stop the
car was bogus. But the judge allowed it, anyway, And his ruling effectively
told the cops they could enforce NON-EXISTENT’ laws with no punishment for them
as a matter of law. Fortunately, a higher court reversed it, saying that, if
ignorance of the law applies to citizens, it should also apply to the government,
and this search DID violate the Fourth Amendment and the “evidence” should be
thrown out. (Personal Liberty)
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