CONSIDERABLE CONTROVERSY

Considerable Controversy

Considerable Controversy

ANSWER 01

The U. S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in the case of Whren v. United States. 1 Whren and a co-defendant, accused of federal drug law violations, had been convicted in District Court and, after appealing to the U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, had lost there too. At both courts they had requested that the drugs found in Whren's car be excluded from evidence at their trial, contending that the arresting police officers' purported basis for stopping them - a minor traffic infraction - was in fact a ...