It's a method the police have used for decades.
Justice Kennedy called his claim that "no one has a legitimate expectation of privacy" regarding contraband "circular", because at stake in the case is not the contraband itself but the method the police use to find it.
In the new method, the police show witnesses one person at a time, instead of several at once, and the lineup is overseen by someone not connected to the case, to avoid anything that could steer the witness to the suspect the police believe is guilty.
Using traditional methods, the police typically took a total of 42 prints.
It's impossible to dismiss Hunter's commitment to his mission, or even his methods – the police, after all, employ similar tactics, when they can marshall the resources – but Stinson's attempts to shed light on this issue have taken him to a very dark place, and for an uncomfortable hour, we were obliged to share it with him.
We did the investigation we could, but we don't have the tools or the methods of the police," he said.
As he wrote at the time, "the damage, the lying criminal methods of the police in importuning me and consequently capturing me leaves me cold, stunned and finished".
People who have seen it say it is a sweeping critique of many forensic methods that the police and prosecutors rely on, including fingerprinting, firearms identification and analysis of bite marks, blood spatter, hair and handwriting.
In three deft articles, she examines the dubious methods of the police in securing the conviction of Muhammad Afzal Guru, a Kashmiri, for masterminding a 2001 terrorist attack on the Indian parliament building allegedly by planting evidence and torturing him into confessing.
The main achievement of his first term, the clampdown on crime, was achieved largely by William Bratton, the then police commissioner, introducing private-sector management methods to the police force.
Given the decision to arrest, what alternative methods did the police have, if any? Did the police have the procedural option not to arrest, given the very low-level crime of selling "loose cigarettes," of which he was a repeat offender?
