Ohio Prosecuted a Taxidermist for Asking an Inspector to Come Back Later
Regulators insist Fourth Amendment protections don’t apply to administrative searches.
8 December 2021
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Regulators insist Fourth Amendment protections don’t apply to administrative searches.
8 December 2021
When law enforcement officers tell you they're certain that everybody is a lawbreaker, they inadvertently summarize a good reason why we place restrictions on searches for evidence of legal infractions. If the authorities are convinced that they'll find wrongdoing, they'll make sure they find something that runs afoul of one the spider web of rules in which we're entangled. But, like a lot of agencies with regulatory powers, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) claims the Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to its officers. That has taxidermist and deer processor Jeremy Bennett fighting back in court against government goons who ...
Ohio Prosecuted a Taxidermist for Asking an Inspector to Come Back Later
When law enforcement officers tell you they're certain that everybody is a lawbreaker, they inadvertently summarize a good reason why...
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