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"just doing our jobs" routine not a winning argument-immunity gone

F350

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The defendants' attorneys have argued they're immune from prosecution because they were just doing their jobs.
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Let me see here, I seem to recall a little town in Germany where some people tried that same defense.... It didn't work then.
 
Fallschirjmäger

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... The magistrate judge found that all aspects of the traffic stop complied with the Fourth Amendment, and concluded that the digital rectal examination was lawful because it was not a “search” under the Fourth Amendment, and even if it was a “search,” LaPaglia and the officers acted reasonably under the circumstances.
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Oh, no... we're not searching the house for evidence of a crime, we're merely examining the house to make sure no illegal items are being held within.

Horse hockey. A search is a search.
 
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