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To: boris_a who wrote (126593)	3/19/2004 4:32:50 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

Arresting carloads of suspects and holding them for days for interrogation without a warrant would probably work well in the US, but we don't let our police do that. When you read loud screams about the Patriot Act, boiled down to its substance it does not allow for warrantless searches and seizures. It allows the police to search an abode or other area without serving a warrant first, when nobody is there, but the warrant is issued before the search. And the warrant may come from a magistrate here in Virginia or a magistrate in New York, both of which have open investigations, and be transmitted via fax to another jurisdiction. I tried a case a couple of weeks ago in front of one of the magistrates here in Virginia. He's a good man. A stickler for detail.