United States v. Whren: The Fourth Amendment problem with pretextual traffic stops

We Dissent: Talking Back to the Rehnquist Court, Eight Cases That Subverted Civil Liberties and Civil Rights

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 90-130

  Maclin, Tracey ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (14)

1. James Q. Wilson, Varieties of Police Behavior 51 (1973).
2. Wayne R. LaFave, Search and Seizure: A Treatise on the Fourth Amendment, § 10.8 at 386-87 (1978).
3. Wayne R. LaFave, Search and Seizure: A Treatise on the Fourth Amendment § 1.4(f), at 149 (4th ed. 2004).
4. David Sklansky, Traffic Stops, Minority Motorists, and the Future of the Fourth Amendment, 1997 Sup. Ct. Rev. 271, 285 (1997).
5. See A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., In the Matter of Color 276 (1978).
6. See generally, Sally E. Hadden, Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the CArolinas (2001);
7. see also William J. Cuddihy, The Fourth Amendment: Origins and Original Meaning 1602-1791, 437-449 (1990) (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Claremont Graduate School).
8. Joseph Neff & Pat Stith, Highway Drug Unit Focuses on Blacks, News & Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina), July 28, 1996, at A1.
9. Joseph Neff & Pat Stith, Could It Happen by Chance? News & Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina), July 28, 1996, at A15.
10. Anthony Amsterdam, Perspectives on the Fourth Amendment, 58 Minn. L. Rev. 349, 417 (1974) (footnote omitted); cf. Camara v. Municipal Court, 387 U.S.523, 528 (1967) ("The basic purpose of th[e] Amendment, as recognized in countless decisions of this Court, is to safeguard the privacy and security of individuals against arbitrary invasions by governmental officials.").
11. See generally, Thomas Y. Davies, Recovering the Original Fourth Amendment, 98 Mich. L. Rev. 547, 556, 736 (1999) (larger purpose for which the Framers adopted the Fourth Amendment was to curb the exercise of discretionary authority of government officers).
12. Kenneth Culp Davis, Discretionary Justice 88 (1969).
13. Kenneth Culp Davis, An Approach to Legal Control of the Police, 52 Tex. L. Rev. 703, 714 (1974).
14. Kenneth J. Melilli, Batson in Practice: What We Have Learned About Batson and Peremptory Challenges, 71 Notre Dame L. Rev. 447, 470 (1996).