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By mmcdonalataocdotgov on 7/12/2007 11:21:22 AM , Rating: 2
There is no reasonable expectation of privacy in publicly displayed personalty like an automobile. So if you take it out in public, it is fair game. If this were not true, then you could suppress the identification of the license plate from a car used in a hold up since there was no warrant to obtain the item. If an officer stops you for a speeding ticket and sees a corpse in your back seat, that is also plain view and is therefore admissable evidence in your murder trial.

The proscription is against unreasonable search and seizure, and plain view is a long established exception. Therefore no legislation is needed to implement this solution.

BTW, "Big Brother" was an intrusion since the cameras were in the characters' homes where there IS constitutional protection against search and seizure.

Checks and Balances is a doctrine that pertains to each branch of government having some control over the other two, not a check or balance of government by the citizenry.

As to BF, no liberty is being given up here. We never had a liberty in plain view items.

