This is the property of the Daily Journal Corporation and fully protected by copyright. It is made available only to Daily Journal subscribers for personal or collaborative purposes and may not be distributed, reproduced, modified, stored or transferred without written permission. Please click "Reprint" to order presentation-ready copies to distribute to clients or use in commercial marketing materials or for permission to post on a website. and copyright (showing year of publication) at the bottom.
Subscribe to the Daily Journal for access to Daily Appellate Reports, Verdicts, Judicial Profiles and more...

Judges and Judiciary

Apr. 11, 2000

FLIGHT

The uniformed officer dismounts his motorcycle and approaches a lone male motorist with a broken taillight. As he slowly begins writing a fix-it-ticket, he asks if he could search the trunk. The driver, having just completed a law school course in criminal procedure, says that he could think of no good reason why the officer would be justified in such an intrusion. The officer smiles wryly and answers that the act of refusing permission just gave him reasonable cause to

By Stanley A. Goldman
        The uniformed officer dismounts his motorcycle and approaches a lone male motorist with a broken taillight. As he slowly begins writing a fix-it-ticket, he asks if he could search the trunk. The driver, having just completed a law school course in criminal procedure, says that he could think of no good reason why the officer would be justified in such an intrusion. The officer s...

To continue reading, please subscribe.

Already a subscriber?

Or access this article for $45
(Purchase provides 7-day access to this article. Printing, posting or downloading is not allowed.)