21 August 2012

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)

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