Fourth Amendment in Relation to Computer and Electronic Evidence
The Fourth Amendment was drafted to regulate searches of homes and physical property, and has developed clear rules to regulate entering and retrieving mechanism of traditional physical searches. Computer searches involves lots of magnetized spots on metal disks, transforming those spots into data that is processed and directed to users through monitors. On the other hand, if the police have a warrant, the warrant allows them to take away any evidence named in the warrant. Once they take away the physical property that is considered seizure which is reasonable if the property is named in the warrant. Also, the police can take away other evidence that they come across in plain
The Fourth Amendment was drafted to regulate searches of homes and physical property, and has developed clear rules to regulate entering and retrieving mechanism of traditional physical searches. Computer searches involves lots of magnetized spots on metal disks, transforming those spots into data that is processed and directed to users through monitors. On the other hand, if the police have a warrant, the warrant allows them to take away any evidence named in the warrant. Once they take away the physical property that is considered seizure which is reasonable if the property is named in the warrant. Also, the police can take away other evidence that they come across in plain