United States v. Valle

This case is important. It is important to the role we have traditionally allotted to juries in our criminal justice system. It is important to ' the rule which requires judges to apply the laws written by the people’s Congress, particularly to police conduct which utilizes official databases to *529access information about citizens where such is not part of official action. Because the majority opinion seeks to enshrine all the conduct in this case in an academic protective halo, I find it necessary to offer the realistic context of this controversy.

This is not a case about governmental…