illegal searches
the supreme court recently ruled that sometimes evidence from an illegal search can be used to prosecute crimes. on one hand it sounds like the supreme court just gutted the fourth amendment. on the other hand, i'm not a criminal. so what do i care? 'course someone could send child pornography to your spam box. and the cops could make an 'honest' mistake and illegally search your computer. based on a tip by the same someone. and poof! you're a registered sex offender for the rest of your life. good luck getting a good paying job. heh. on the other hand, we can put away the bad guys even if some clerk somewhere made a typing error. i think there was some sort of imaginary line vaguely defining right and wrong. that line's been erased. now we have to figure out how to draw a new one. most likely, in the same place.