terratogen wrote:
I think the way they justify this is that by choosing to fly, you automatically wave your rights to privacy. The main reason for this is "safety," but once the right is waived this reason is moot. If you consent to a search by a cop looking for weapons of mass destruction, and he finds your weed instead, he can still bust you for it. Consent means you consent to be searched... not searched for something particular.

See the filings here. The operative question at hand, at the admission of the prosecution, is not whether Barlow consented, but whether the search was appropriately narrow.

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