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‘High crime’ label new Fourth Amendment flashpoint?

May 19th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Is the “high crime area” label the new “racial profiling” in Fourth Amendment jurisprudence in Virginia?
In the late ’90s, the rubric of “racial profiling” came under suspicion as a poorly disguised excuse for discrimination against minorities. At a 1999 panel program at the annual Virginia State Bar meeting on profiling in traffic stops, Norfolk lawyer […]

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