
High court rules against man strip-searched over traffic violation
Submitted by anthony on Mon, 2012-04-02 16:29
Article here. Something tells me if it was a woman the Supreme Court would have came to a different decision. Excerpt:
'Washington (CNN) -- A New Jersey man who was strip searched in prison after being accused of failing to pay a traffic fine lost his Supreme Court appeal Monday.
The 5-4 divided court found two county jails "struck a reasonable balance between inmate privacy and the needs of the (correctional) institution."
The conservative majority concluded a "reasonable suspicion" standard could be applied when conducting examinations of newly admitted prisoners.
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Albert Florence said he was subjected to what he called a pair of intrusive, humiliating searches six years ago.'
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