Search Warrants
It is Saturday and like every other Saturday night you are stuck in the house since your friends failed to invite you to do any activities. You decided to be a little spontaneous and text a couple of your friends along with your local drug dealer. After begging your parents to let you borrow the car you then pick up the weed, and then a couple of you and closest friends all decide to go out to a party. Before you all walk into the house you put the car in park and decide to roll up the weed with intentions of smoking it before you all walk into the party. The weed is laid out on the dashboard and the windows are so fogged up from the excess smoke they did not let out.
Flashing red and blue lights are coming from the rearview window which indicates to the teens that the police may have caught onto them. The police officer walks up to the window to ask questions, but before moving any further he notices the weed on the dashboard. The officer then demands that everyone keep their hands where he can see. The …show more content…
A Search warrant is defined as “a warrant issued by a competent authority authorizing a police officer to search a specified place for evidence even without a occupant’s consent”(LII, 1). This has then given him enough evidence so that it was okay to observe the car. This connection can be linked to the Fourth Amendment which is defined as “the reasonable belief that a crime has been committed and that the person is linked to the crime with the same degree of certainty”(Criminal Procedure, 1). Along with searching cars; police officers are about to go searching homes, persons, and even schools if they felt that there is any reasonable doubt to continue on with pursuing the search any further. Being able to seize that object allowing that officer to use in court against that person is their
It is Saturday and like every other Saturday night you are stuck in the house since your friends failed to invite you to do any activities. You decided to be a little spontaneous and text a couple of your friends along with your local drug dealer. After begging your parents to let you borrow the car you then pick up the weed, and then a couple of you and closest friends all decide to go out to a party. Before you all walk into the house you put the car in park and decide to roll up the weed with intentions of smoking it before you all walk into the party. The weed is laid out on the dashboard and the windows are so fogged up from the excess smoke they did not let out.
Flashing red and blue lights are coming from the rearview window which indicates to the teens that the police may have caught onto them. The police officer walks up to the window to ask questions, but before moving any further he notices the weed on the dashboard. The officer then demands that everyone keep their hands where he can see. The …show more content…
A Search warrant is defined as “a warrant issued by a competent authority authorizing a police officer to search a specified place for evidence even without a occupant’s consent”(LII, 1). This has then given him enough evidence so that it was okay to observe the car. This connection can be linked to the Fourth Amendment which is defined as “the reasonable belief that a crime has been committed and that the person is linked to the crime with the same degree of certainty”(Criminal Procedure, 1). Along with searching cars; police officers are about to go searching homes, persons, and even schools if they felt that there is any reasonable doubt to continue on with pursuing the search any further. Being able to seize that object allowing that officer to use in court against that person is their