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Constitutional Law

Apr. 19, 2000

Rehnquist Surprise

Practitioner: Constitutional Law By Erwin Chemerinsky Over its 14-year history, the William H. Rehnquist Court has sided with the police in the overwhelming majority of Fourth Amendment cases that it has decided.

Erwin Chemerinsky

Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law

Erwin's most recent book is "Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism." He is also the author of "Closing the Courthouse," (Yale University Press 2017).

By Erwin Chemerinsky
        Over its 14-year history, the William H. Rehnquist Court has sided with the police in the overwhelming majority of Fourth Amendment cases that it has decided. For example, recently, in Illinois v. Wardlow, 120 S.Ct. 673 (2000), the Supreme Court ruled that flight from police officers, by itself, was a significant factor justifying a warrantless stop-and-fri...

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