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** When Judy doesn't have a warrant to enter the parking lot Otterton's limo is stored in, she tosses her pen recorder on the other side of the fence, tricking Nick into climbing the fence to retrieve it. Judy uses Nick's trespassing as
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** When Judy doesn\'t have a warrant to enter the parking lot Otterton\'s limo is stored in, she tosses her pen recorder on the other side of the fence, tricking Nick into climbing the fence to retrieve it. Judy uses Nick\'s trespassing as \"probable cause\" to enter the parking lot. In real life probable cause isn\'t a substitute for a warrant, it\'s what you need to get a warrant in the first place.
That is incorrect. A law officer who sees something suspicious -- such as a person jumping a fence -- has probable cause to conduct an immediate search (\"exigent circumstances\", that is, things happening right here and now, are an exception to the warrant requirement). Judy is bending the law (abusing, really), because such a \'probable cause\' is only valid for the purpose of investigating the specific thing they saw, and the exigent circumstances must be genuine, not manufactured. If Judy\'s investigation had turned up evidence, that evidence would later not be allowed in court, and could even taint and exclude later evidence found based on that illegally-obtained evidence (the \"fruit of the poisonous tree\" doctrine), but that\'s very complicated and depends on the exact laws in Zootopia.
That is incorrect. A law officer who sees something suspicious -- such as a person jumping a fence -- has probable cause to conduct an immediate search (\"exigent circumstances\", that is, things happening right here and now, are an exception to the warrant requirement). Judy is bending the law (abusing, really), because such a \'probable cause\' is only valid for the purpose of investigating the specific thing they saw, and the exigent circumstances must be genuine, not manufactured. If Judy\'s investigation had turned up evidence, that evidence would later not be allowed in court, and could even taint and exclude later evidence found based on that illegally-obtained evidence (the \"fruit of the poisonous tree\" doctrine), but that\'s very complicated and depends on the exact laws in Zootopia.
