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Well said Bill! We once called this “the exclusionary rule”. Where courts could not use any evidence found by police without a search warrant. That got muddied in the 1990s by Republican Florida Congressman Bill McCollum who sponsored and passed House Bill 666 which changed 4th Amendment wording from “Probable Cause” to “Good faith of the Police.” It is estimated that police commit felony perjury in our courts over 200,000 times a year. Almost all lying about the same thing, PROBABLY CAUSE.
If we were to actually adhere to the 4th Amendment and cops were not pathological liars in our courts, about half those in prison would not be there. In fact I wonder if there is anyone who has not witnessed a cop lying to them outside the window of their car.