On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 (along party lines with Justice Anthony Kennedy hitched to the conservative bandwagon) that the police can strip-search any person arrested for any crime -- no matter how petty the offense and without the burden of probable cause -- before admitting him or her to jail.
As Justice Stephen Breyer pointed out in the dissent, people can be arrested and held for offenses as minor as traffic infractions like not using a turn signal or having a noisy muffler. Have you been arrested for a petty crime -- an offense the Supreme Court evidently believes is sufficient to warrant a strip search? Tell us about the experience here on Open Salon.
Be sure to tag your posts "My petty crime arrest." Please note that by using this tag you're giving us permission to cross-post your piece, in part or in its entirety, on Salon.
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~wanders off to get a hand job from a hooker down the street~
:D
Tell me why?
Now here is a good topic for conversation...How much of your private life do you really want the whole word to know. What happens on OS does not stay on OS......its out there..forever.
Is it just me, or does it seem like we keep moving closer to being a police state?
My son sold a car to an acquaintance who neglected to make payments, and answer his phone. So my son repossess the car, which gets reported stolen. Even with the pink slip, and registration in his name, my son gets arrested for grand theft auto. And treated like a car thief by the cops, until they realized they really screwed up. After talking to the reporting party, they immediately released my kid begging him not to sue.
Just goes to show how easy it is to get tangled up in our just-us system.
You smell like Nat Sherman's 5th Ave.
Cigarettes.
I read your last few post. You a clown!
We need a clown in every crowd. Oho!
No chew left-over ww-2 chew tobacco!
Ya have 3- Ice Cream cones in Ya head!
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I was arrested in a Waynesboro, PA bank.
I was Shocked to know ref:` police record.
I was booked pre-Draft for skinny dipping.
Your friend Eric Holder knows about that.
Maybe lawyers cover each others butts too.
View court transcripts in Chamberburg,PA.
Cops use to visit me for honeymoon meads.
Now they see Red Beer Caps in my Pot-Hole.
I wave to every police officer that I see all day.
This was in Fl.
A year later my DD was arrested and I was almost as well for non- shoplifing and a bad 'tude, she was thrown into a police van and handcuffed this at 14 when we both were not lifting anything at all, and she would have had to stay in FL for a semester for a jury of her peers had we not chosen to have a good lawyer get the charges dropped for lack of any evidence. Moral: Don't do anything in Florida that might lead to arrest or incarceration. I won't elaborate because these are two twin tales i've never been able to write with the appropriate theater of absurd pov.