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John Shadegg: “You are telling me that the essence of this judge's ruling was that the search, the stop made by the police and the…”

On the recordMarch 7, 1996
You are telling me that the essence of this judge's ruling was that the search, the stop made by the police and the search which led to the evidence which showed enough cocaine to give every single child in Detroit one administration or one dose of cocaine, the search led to that, they found that much cocaine and the judge threw it out. And the reason he threw it out is because for people to run from the police is normal conduct in that neighborhood, and does not justify the police in having suspicion that some criminal activity has gone on?
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John Shadegg
Arizona

Editor's note · Context

Discussing a judge's ruling on a police search related to a cocaine case.

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