Tony Mauro's Courtside column has more reaction to Chief Justice Roberts' detective-novel-style dissent from denial of certiorari in Pennsylvania v. Dunlap. Surprisingly, with all the speculation over why the opinion is written in this unusual style, no one else seems to have picked up on what seems to me to be the obvious reason.

Appellate judges tend to live in ivory towers. They need to have more respect for the practical experience of cops on the beat in gritty neighborhoods. The medium is the message.