Warp wrote:
> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> Further, under US law, 
>> if they *did* find illegal substances in my car, if the traffic stop was 
>> not legal, they would not be able to prosecute because they would have 
>> lacked probable cause to pull me over in the first place.
> 
>   That's one thing I have never understood.

It discourages the police from breaking the law in the first place. In 
practice, people aren't going to put police in jail or otherwise punish them 
for catching criminals. If you believe there should be laws like this in the 
first place, the only reasonable way to enforce them is to take something 
away from the police when they break the rules, rather than add something 
(like punishment) when they break the rules.

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