Malcolm Cameron v. State of Mississippi

MAXWELL, J., for the Court:

¶ 1. The Fourth Amendment prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures, including unreasonable traffic stops. But if an officer had probable cause to believe a traffic violation occurred, the traffic stop is reasonable. Here, Malcolm Cameron never raised a Fourth Amendment challenge to the stop. Still, the record shows the officer pulled over Cameron after watching him swerve in his vehicle. So Cameron’s non-asserted argument that the exclusionary rule should bar evidence obtained following the stop fails.

¶2. We also find Cameron’s argument that there was…