Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Automatic Self-Incrimination

Investigators sent the Lancer's computer — better known as a black box — to the vehicle's manufacturer in California in order to track Flores' actions before the fatal collision. Data from the black box helped police determine that Flores had been speeding, Blagg said. Police had been “anxious to make an arrest” and did so quickly after an indictment was issued. [More]
Hey, after all, aren't we told "driving is a privilege"?

1 comment:

CarlS said...

"The RIGHT of a citizen to travel upon the public highways and to transport his property thereon in the ordinary course of life and business is A COMMON RIGHT which he has under his RIGHT to enjoy life and liberty.... It includes the RIGHT in so doing to use the ordinary and usual conveyances of the day; and under existing modes of travel includes the RIGHT to drive a horse-drawn carriage or wagon thereon, or to operate an automobile thereon for the usual and ordinary purposes of life and business. It is NOT A MERE PRIVILEGE, like the privilege of moving a house in the street, operating a business stand in the street, or transporting persons or property for hire along the street, which the city may permit or prohibit at will. Thompson v. Smith, 154 S.E. 579, 1929"