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Article: EDITORIAL: Court's decision attacks Fourth Amendment
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- December 8, 1998
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Staff Editorial
University Wire
12-08-1998
(Michigan Daily) (U-WIRE) ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The U.S. Supreme Court continued its assault on the Fourth Amendment last week, reinstating two drug convictions that were overturned by Minnesota's highest court in the case of Minnesota v. Carter. Two men were arrested in 1994 after a police officer - without a warrant - peered through the closed blinds of a woman's apartment and observed them putting white powder into a plastic bag. Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist explained why the Court dissented from a 1990 ruling that upheld the privacy rights of overnight guests in a person's home under the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable ...