Josh Blackman » “However, in the years following Mapp, leading to Leon, this social cost calculus flipped, as the Fourth Amendment has been carved up like a Jack-o’-lantern–with jagged cuts, grotesque features, and a hollow, carved-out vacuous interior.”

“However, in the years following Mapp, leading to Leon, this social cost calculus flipped, as the Fourth Amendment has been carved up like a Jack-o’-lantern–with jagged cuts, grotesque features, and a hollow, carved-out vacuous interior.”

August 27th, 2011

I wrote this sentence for my piece on social cost. I don’t if I agree with it, but I really like the imagery.