The shoe?

[ciroccoj]

Privacy includes being left alone and permitted to exercise one's own will over an object which is owned that's why it's called private property as opposed to public property. If the police steal someone's shoe that is theft because there are private property rights associated in it, and one has a reasonable expectation of privacy in the shoe.


There's nothing really wrong with the above, other than a run-on-sentence at first, but for some reason it brings to mind a bright twelve-year-old writing for a grade eight Civics class. Not a lawyer writing a Constitutional factum that is then posted onto a website to help other lawyers write Constitutional factums.

Not to mention, "one has a reasonable expectation of privacy in the shoe" makes me snicker. As does "The Crown argues that there is no reasonable expectation of privacy in the shoe."


And also? "Twaddle" is a really, really unfortunately name for a judge.

Comments

[tudorlady.livejournal.com]

Oh god, that IS an unfortunate name.

What someone does whilst being left alone with a shoe...

...I wish I hadn't started thinking about this, thank you.

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

::snicker:: sorreeee....

Actually, it had nothing to do with what they did during their alone time with the shoe. Well, it did, but only because what they did was stash some weed in it ;)

[ladystarstruck.livejournal.com]

Do they live in the shoe? Did the police have a warrant?

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

LOL! The problem was that they didn't have a warrant. But they found weed in it anyway. So the question was, should the fact that the shoe's owner was arrested be reason enough for the police to search his shoe, or should his shoe be treated as private property that the police need a warrant to search, regardless of whether the owner of the property is under arrest or not.

Somewhere in the factum was a line about "the shoe that was attached to the foot that belonged to the accused." I had a bizarre image of a myopic cop with a huge magnifying glass panning up from the shoe to the foot to the leg to the face of the accused and saying, "AHA!! It belongs to YOU!!" and I don't even know where the hell that came from.

[fearciuil.livejournal.com]

*snicker* And having read the comments, I'm trying to figure out how he fit weed in his shoe with his foot in it....

Also, "Twaddle"? I am totally stealing that name for my Discworld fanfics.