99 problems but an insufficient understanding of my rights under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution aint one

Via friend and former colleague David Abbatoy (blog here), a law review article breaking down Jay-Z's "99 Problems," with commentary and cites to relevant federal case law. A sample from the article:

I ain’t trying to see no highway chase with jake . . . “Jake” is the cops,and Jay-Z’s narrator is making a prudential business decision here. Highspeed
chases are almost always bad for the perp. If you’re caught after a highspeed chase, you can be certain that the police will impound the car, run a dog over it, and search it thoroughly. So if you’re going to run, you’d better either get away or ditch your load mid-chase. But the latter is dicey, because your load will likely be found, and you’ll have no suppression remedy because you abandoned it before you were technically seized.

There is a lot more where that came from (full article here), highlighting some of the dicier areas of police-citizen encounters. Well worth a read.

(Video for "99 Problems" embedded below, so you can follow along with the article)