Posted On: October 21, 2009
UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT DECLINES TO HEAR "ONE SWERVE" ANONYMOUS TIPSTER DUI CASE
United States Supreme Court Chief Justice Samuel Alito lobbied hard to gain enough colleagues to vote to hear a DUI case out of Virginia where the cop pulled over a driver based solely on the tip from an anonymous tipster that he saw the driver "swerve once." The cop, however, saw no bad driving himself.
That's not a good enough case to make a majority of the U.S. Supremes take it on. In fact, it is a major win for the Constitution. That a cop should be able to suspend the Fourth Amendment rights of a citizen based on an anonymous tipster is ludicrous. So implied the remainder of the justices that declined Alito's push to hear this ridiculous case.
CLick HERE for the news story on the case.
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