Concept information
Preferred term
dropsy testimony
Definition
- Dropsy testimony refers to testimony by police officers that an individual—upon seeing or being questioned by a police officer—dropped illegal drugs on the ground. Defense attorneys use the term pejoratively to imply that police officers conveniently claim that an individual dropped the contraband to avoid a finding that the officers may have violated the Fourth Amendment prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures. [Source: Encyclopedia of the Fourth Amendment; Dropsy Testimony]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/dropsy_testimony
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