Doesn’t sound like that was the case. It sounds like he was stopped without much of a reason, then discovered the marijuana stuff, and then discovered he had a warrant. IANAL and I did not read more on this case than this one article, so I could be wrong. But it sounds like the court is saying that if you stop someone for no reason but later find out there was a reason, then its OK. If that is how it went down, I don’t think I can support it (though my opinion matters nil). In this day and age, there are so many laws, everyone in the country is a criminal without even knowing it.
There’s ample reason to believe so -
L. Gordon Crovitz: You Commit Three Felonies a Day - WSJ
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Sep 27, 2009 ... Boston civil-liberties lawyer Harvey Silverglate calls his new book “Three Felonies a Day,” referring to the number of crimes he estimates..
RE: “In this day and age, there are so many laws, everyone in the country is a criminal without even knowing it.”
You hit the nail on the head. We have too many laws. There is not way citizens can keep track of all of them. There is no way police can enforce all of them.
So the police are in a position to pick which they will enforce.
Hate crimes is an example. Nobody commits murder, rape, assault or even vandalism out of love or respect. It is always out of hate/evil motives. To make hate an additional crime is going too far.
Take identity group laws. Pre-60s a murder was murder of 1st or 2d degree or manslaughter based solely on the extent of pre-meditation and other aspects of the accused. But starting in the 60s we created special classes of victims. Killing the President, or killing a policeman was more heinous than killing a kid in the Pulse or a kid on Chicago’s Southside.
By law society said that the life of a kid on the southside is worth less than the life of a polic officer. Then we wonder why we have the mess we have.
Of course, these are just isolated examples of a genderal decay into identity police work that holds a person more..or less... guilty .. or innocent based on his identity group.
At first, society thought identity group politics made sense. Allegedly it made sense to treat police special. But now we have the bounce back of identity politics where the life of a criminal is now more valued than that of the police.
In the 60s and 70s that bounce-back was predicted by many of us, most notably libertarians like John Hosper. But also by many commonsense analysts.
We need to remove many laws.