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Motorcyclist Wins Taping Case Against State Police
stevegee58 writes "Slashdot readers may recall the case of a Maryland motorcyclist (Anthony Graber) arrested and charged with wiretapping violations (a felony) when he recorded his interaction with a Maryland State Trooper. Today, Judge Emory A. Pitt threw out the wiretapping charges against Graber, leaving only his traffic violations to be decided on his October 12 trial date. 'The judge ruled that Maryland's wire tap law allows recording of both voice and sound in areas where privacy cannot be expected. He ruled that a police officer on a traffic stop has no expectation of privacy.' A happy day for freedom-loving Marylanders and Americans in general."
The case finally ends up in the Supreme Court where the justices vote 5 - 4 that police in public arenas are entitled to an expectation of privacy due to the War on Terror.
Antonin Scalia writes the majority opinion...
Did you ever wake up in the morning, with a Zombie Woof behind your eyes? -- FZ
We have an asshole cop who has learned a neat "trick" near my house; he parks at a 45-degree angle, the wrong way down the wrong side of a cul-de-sac, and watches for people to go past the stop sign, making sure his dashcam can't see the sign or cars. Then, soon as anyone pulls out, he just pulls forward, cites for a fraudulent "failure to fully stop", and fills his ticket quota for the month.
Then by all means then, get your camera and quit whining. You lose the right to complain when your too freaking lazy to do something about it.
So they can't expect to go to the toilet without being monitored?
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it