Passengers, like drivers, have a constitutional right to challenge the legality of police decisions to stop cars in which they are traveling, the Supreme Court said Monday. California had argued only the driver is covered by the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures. Justice David Souter, writing for a unanimous Court, disagreed. "A traffic stop necessarily curtails the travel a passenger has chosen just as much as it halts the driver," Souter said.
June 19, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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Passengers, like drivers, have a constitutional right to challenge the legality of police decisions to stop cars in which they are traveling, the Supreme Court said Monday.
Bruce Brendlin was convicted of drug possession after a sheriff’s deputy stopped a car in which he was a passenger in Yuba City, Calif., in 2001.
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