Finally, someone with advanced legal training has taken the time to painstakingly analyze the finer points of Jay-Z's 99 Problems from the perspective of the fourth amendment implications raised by the second verse. This is, of course, long overdue analysis.
http://slu.edu/Documents/law/Law%20Journal/Archives/LJ56-2_Mason_Article.pdf
I'm actually posting this because every week or so someone makes a thread about five-o asking "can I do this" or "can I do that". This is a pretty damned complete guide to the use of traffic stops to search for drugs in a car; what the officer can and can't do, and how to avoid letting them do those things. Basically, he's produced a guide for both sides of this kind of encounter.
"It turns out that, while some other law professors have noticed
99 Problems, no one has yet provided a detailed, accurate analysis of the Fourth Amendment issues Verse 2 raises. In this Essay, I remedy that deficiency in the literature."
