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Arizona v. Gant

| April 21, 2009

Texas nar­cotics cops get an anony­mous tip that some­one is car­ry­ing drugs in his car. They call a cop in a marked unit to fol­low him. The uni­formed cop watches for a traf­fic vio­la­tion (chang­ing lanes with­out sig­nal­ing is pop­u­lar). The uni­formed cop stops the sus­pect, arrests him for the traf­fic vio­la­tion, cuffs and stuffs him, then […]

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