reasonable suspicion

From Scott Henson: Is Babysitting While White Reasonable Suspicion For Police Questioning?

Scott’s not a lawyer, but I doubt there will be many other posts written in the next two months that can overcome his slice-of-life post that is the clear frontrunner in my mind.

The Austin police inconvenienced, annoyed, and angered me today, in that order. (via Grits for Breakfast)

Doug Weathers asks criminal defense lawyers, “Would you rather have Good Facts or Good Law?”:

Every time I am preparing for a trial I deal with the question of do I have good facts or good law.

Rarely do you have both because those cases are usually dismissed or never go to trial. Sometimes you have neither good facts or good law and those cases usually plead.

In most of the trial cases you will have either good facts or good law.

OK. So it makes for an amusing story about the cops bursting into a party full of teenagers drinking root beer, but, where was the reasonable suspicion or probable cause for the search and at least temporary seizures of every single person in the house?

Cars lining the street.

A house full of young people. A keg and drinking games inside. Police thought they had an underage boozing party on their hands.

Texas Governor Rick Perry, giving advice last Friday to one of the largest graduating classes of new DPS troopers ever:

You might pay heed to a hunch and check a truck more closely the way one of your fellow troopers recently did…and stopped $3 million worth of cocaine from reaching our communities.