Saranac Hale Spencer: A Brief Summary

Decent Essays
In an article by Saranac Hale Spencer, which was published 7 March, entitled “Rules May Change for Digital Search Warrants,” Spencer discusses the Delaware Supreme Court decision to require more specific search and seizure warrants for electronic devices.
In 2015, Christopher Wheeler, a former Tower Hill headmaster, was sentenced to 50 years in prison for 25 counts of dealing in child pornography.
However, the warrants used to obtain the information were so broad he was able to appeal and is now going to be released on the grounds that his rights were violated and the information obtained by the search could not be used against him.
The warrants were supposed to be for evidence of witness tampering. Spencer explains that the Delaware

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    In the 1984 case of New Jersey v T.L.O., a fourteen year old freshman student’s attorney argues that evidence collected by school officials should be excluded due to a violation of the student’s Fourth Amendment rights to unreasonable search and seizure. The student and her friend were caught smoking cigarettes in the restroom of the high school by a teacher, and escorted to the principal’s office. After claiming that she was not a smoker, the principal demanded that she reveal the contents of her purse. Upon opening the purse, the principal found not only cigarettes; but, marijuana, drug paraphernalia, a substantial amount of money, and a list of other students that owed her money.…

    • 363 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Deborah Sampson, who fought in the American Revolution disguised as the soldier Robert Shurtlieff, was born on December 1, 1760 in Plymton, Massachusetts, near Plymouth. Growing up Deborah and her family were very poor. When Deborah’s father failed to return from a sea voyage, her mother, unable to provide for her seven children, placed them in various households. At the age of 18 she made a living teaching school during the summer sessions. Slowly the idea of joining the army dressed as a man took hold.…

    • 215 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Achman Case Study

    • 748 Words
    • 3 Pages

    I, Supreme Court Justice, Floyd McLeod, find in favor of Mohammed Achman. This case has proved to me that Mr. Achman 's rights as an U.S. citizen were violated multiple times. To go more in depth; on September 27, 2001, approximately two weeks after the terrorist attack of the World Trade Center, America, especially New York ,were on edge in finding any little details to get to the bottom of the attack and any future attacks. Unfortunately, the Achman 's felt the wrath and discrimination from American civilians. It all started with people breaking one of his windows to his store and destroying his mosque in queens.…

    • 748 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Tywanne Aldridge Case

    • 1028 Words
    • 5 Pages

    In brief summary of the United States court case U.S of America, Appellee, v. Tywanne M. Aldridge Tywanne is the following. Tywanne Aldridge is a former Kansas University football player who was arrested and charged with two felony crimes in 2000 as a result of a reverse sting operation with the FBI (U.S Publishing Office, 2005). The first charge was conspiracy to distribute more than 500 grams of cocaine, and the second possession of a weapon in furtherance of a drug trafficking violation (U.S Publishing Office, 2005). Aldridge was arrested with his cousins Monroe Lockhart and Preston Gardenhire and his uncle Chris McFarlane (The United States District Court For The Western District Of Missouri Western Division, 2007). Before Aldridge’s trial…

    • 1028 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Blown To Bits Book Report

    • 871 Words
    • 4 Pages

    The book Blown to Bits by Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, and Harry Lewis has often given me the impression that this book was intended to warn its audience of the many dangers of technology, and that the benefits of using technology are not worth the risks. The book’s third chapter, “Ghosts in the Machine,” however, was different, because I noticed that the authors were just giving information about things that computers do that people may not realize, but not necessarily implying that all of these abilities are dangerous or harmful. For this reason, and for many other reasons, I enjoyed reading this chapter of Blown to Bits more than I have enjoyed reading any other chapter so far. The first topic discussed in this chapter left me with feelings of both concern and relief.…

    • 871 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    T. L. O. Case Essay

    • 750 Words
    • 3 Pages

    T.L.O. may have had illegal items in her possession, but the search conducted by the school was unlawful, unreasonable, and violated two Amendments in the Constitution of the United States of America. T.L.O. suffered many charges pressed against her in the lower level courts, so she has now been brought to The Supreme Court’s attention. T.L.O. was first discovered smoking in a school lavatory along with an acquaintance by a teacher. Her accomplice admitted to smoking but T.L.O. denied it. She was brought…

    • 750 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    The prosecution office at work was a method used by the prosecution team to highlight certain photos and children’s accounts about alleged sexual abuse at the McMartin preschool to gather more evidence to convince the jury that defendant Ray Buckey was a sexual deviant, and that his family was guilty of similar actions. There are several examples or prosecution at work: the prosecution team using photos of the McMartin family with the alleged victims, the photo of a woman receiving oral sex kept by Buckey beside his bedroom window, and the interviews of different children about their stories involving devil worshipping at the McMartin preschool. 2. How does discretion fit…

    • 1470 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Unit 1 Discussion Board Featured in the winter 2016 issue of Context, a publication of the American Sociological Association, the article titled “Digital Punishment’s Tangled Web” is written by Sarah Esther Lageson. Sarah is in the Rutgers University-Newark School of Justice, where she studies how technology changes the law, criminal justice, and systems of American punishment and the effects it has on society. “I have studied the growth of what I call digital punishment by interviewing those who run criminal history and mug shot websites, by analyzing the content they produce, and by interviewing those working to clear their own criminal records through legal means even against the reality of an endless digital trail”. Sarah explains that…

    • 736 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Over 50 years ago, the exclusionary rule was introduced in the United States by the U.S. Supreme Court, and had contributed to many criminal court cases (“The fourth amendment,” n.d.). There are two important criminal cases that played a role in making the exclusionary rule possible, including Weeks v. United States and Mapp v. Ohio (1961) (“The fourth amendment,” n.d.). In the Weeks case, the defendant claimed the decision of a guilty conviction was established from evidence that was seized “without a warrant or other constitutional justification” (“The fourth amendment,” n.d., n.p.). The case was ultimately appealed and the defendant won the appeal because the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the guilty conviction, which led to the creation of…

    • 216 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Angel Gonzalez

    • 1363 Words
    • 6 Pages

    Although the miscarriage of justice is not currently a frequent occurrence, throughout the years, several people have been wrongfully convicted. For multiple reasons, the guilt of the person was believed to be true; thus, punishments were administered accordingly. In an effort to minimize the wrongful convictions, The Innocence Project is committed to assist and exonerate those who have been convicted of a crime that they did not commit. In June 1995, Angel Gonzalez was convicted for aggravated sexual assault and aggravated kidnapping.…

    • 1363 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Dk Dbq Analysis

    • 578 Words
    • 3 Pages

    The use of technology have played a big role in our everyday lives and it is continuing to advance to the net level. But what happens when that technology is used against us? For the past 20 years the use of technology within the government has raised numerous constitutional questions. One question in particular was asked in the case of DLK v. United States. Agents of the government used a thermal imager to scan DLK’s house from outside.…

    • 578 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Court, in their ruling, gave the following factors for their ruling that Smith’s girlfriend “did” have the legal authority to grant consent of the search of Smith’s computer: 1. Smith’s girlfriend lived with him at the time of the search and seizure of Smith’s computer, on which child pornography was…

    • 1746 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    PART I – Arrest of LEE and legal obligations There are a number of legal issues surrounding the arrest of Mr LEE by Constable YOUNG. These legal issues commence shortly after the intercept which is for a relatively minor traffic matter which first presents itself to the police. At the point when when LEE attempts to leave neither he nor YEOH have committed an offence where there is a power of arrest by the attending officers.…

    • 1946 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Your phone,or computer,etc may turn against you if not careful. In this essay we are talking about why cops should get to use personal items like phones,iPad,computers. Or the new Alexa or echo’s database to solve cases or crimes. Cops should use technology for crimes. Why they should is it would cause less delay for them to track the criminal and allow them to be better undercover while they record for uses against people they do it to help.…

    • 337 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Great Essays

    1 There are approximately 326 million people living in the U.S. About half of that number, represents the amount of people in the FBI’s Next Generation Identification Database. Wait - what is that? 2 Let’s take a step back. Living in the 21st century, we’ve all heard about fingerprint sensors - in fact, around 75% of the general population uses fingerprint recognition to unlock a device.…

    • 950 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Great Essays