x-raying your vehicle...the cops have gone too far

[lead_magnet]

Not to shoot you guys down here or anything, BUT...

There is already a Federal Case law on thermal imaging that reads...

Kyllo v. United States: 533 U.S. 27 (2001)
Where the government uses a (thermal imaging) device that is not in general public use to explore details of a home that would otherwise be unknowable without physical intrusion, the surveillance is a "search" and is presumptively unreasonable without a warrant.

^ that is right out of the baca book

So I would imagine if anyone were to get "nabbed" doing something illegal by cops using such a device, a even moderately compitent lawyer could shoot that down. And I would imagne some case law would come about focused on x-ray scans. Because if you think about it, its basicly the same concept it just hasn't been put to paper yet, so I wouldn't worry too much about it. Search without probable cause is a search without probable cause.

[sniper7]

Not to shoot you guys down here or anything, BUT...

There is already a Federal Case law on thermal imaging that reads...

Kyllo v. United States: 533 U.S. 27 (2001)
Where the government uses a (thermal imaging) device that is not in general public use to explore details of a home that would otherwise be unknowable without physical intrusion, the surveillance is a "search" and is presumptively unreasonable without a warrant.

^ that is right out of the baca book

So I would imagine if anyone were to get "nabbed" doing something illegal by cops using such a device, a even moderately compitent lawyer could shoot that down. And I would imagne some case law would come about focused on x-ray scans. Because if you think about it, its basicly the same concept it just hasn't been put to paper yet, so I wouldn't worry too much about it. Search without probable cause is a search without probable cause.

I wonder how many drug dealers could actually come up with the lawyer to bail them out of that one. the .gov uses the info, then just waits for the suspect to fuck up under current laws.
seems like a way for them to gather intel on people then bust them in other ways.

Now proving they received their intel from imaging from the beginning would be another fight I think.