GungnirSniper writes "By a six to three vote, the US Supreme Court has ruled police may enter a home if one occupant allows it even after another previously did not consent.
In the decision on Tuesday in Fernandez v. California, the Court determined since the suspect, Walter Fernandez, was removed from the home and arrested, his live-in girlfriend's consent to search was enough. The Court had addressed a similar case in 2006 in Georgia v. Randolph, but found that since the suspect was still in the home and against the search, it should have kept authorities from entering.
RT.com notes "Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg joined in the minority by Justices Kagan and Sotomayor, marking a gender divide among the Justices in the case wrote the dissenting opinion, calling the decision a blow to the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits 'unreasonable searches and seizures.'"
Could this lead to police arresting people objecting to searches to remove the need for warrants?"
(Score: 1) by calmond on Friday February 28 2014, @06:58PM
While I agree that rhetorical questions should be left to the comments, I think it is worth pointing out that Betteridge's Law states that when a headline asks a question, the answer is "No," whereas in this case, the rhetorical answer is yes. Minor point, but all the same...
(Score: 1) by Jiro on Friday February 28 2014, @07:32PM
Betteridge's Law says that the *actual* answer to the question is "no". But the question that Betteridge's Law refers to is usually trying to *imply* a "yes" (without stating it, since the "yes" is hard to support).