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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
They stole it from us. Fuckin' cops.
I can imagine it first arose in the course of witness prep for a suppression hearing.
"Okay, that's when the suspect said you could search under the seat cushions, right?"
"Well, it's not so much what he said as his --- you know --- body language?"
"Why don't we go with 'He indicated I could search the vehicle'?"
"Um, yeah. He must have temporarily forgotten about those glassine bags of narcotics and cocaine when he indicated that to me."
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On a related note, talk to any public defender to learn how "articulable suspicion" and other legal nonsense phrases have entered the vocabularies of our nation's police officers.
