Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution

INTRODUCTION: This case involves two unknown male Hispanic’s gaining enter into the MailBox Planet building located at 530 S. Lake Ave. Once inside the business, one of the suspects cut the lock that was on the inner gate (separates main office from mailbox area). The suspect entered the main office area and stole approximately 12-15 packages. The suspect left the scene, traveling in an unknown direction. LOCATION DESCRIPTION: The incident occurred at 530 S. Lake Ave. (MailBox Planet). MailBox…

Case title: Herring v. United States Citation: 555 U.S. 135 Year decided: 2009 Facts: Bennie Dean Herring was arrested on July 7, 2004 after he went down to the Coffee County Sheriff’s Department to obtain items from his truck which was impounded. Investigator Mark Anderson became suspicious of Herring and began to inquire about his past. He had Sandy Pope, the county’s warrant clerk, to run Herring’s name in the system to see if he had any active warrants for his arrest. After running…

Final Exam Arizona State University Ulysses Avila November 30, 2014 Questions 1. (10 Points): Write a short brief of U.S. v. Jones (2012). Make sure you follow the format for legal briefs in the example posted on Blackboard. (See Content section for brief example, and Week 14 Readings for the court case). . . . . . . . . . . . Pages 3-4 (5 Points): In your own words,…

Jerry Montez had a promising future in basketball. In high school, he made the starting varsity lineup as a freshman, won the Kansas state basketball championship title all four years in a row, received numerous awards, including Gatorade Player of the Year, went both All-American and All-State, and was offered full-ride scholarships for basketball to Division One schools such as Villanova, the University of North Carolina, and Kentucky. Jerry also made the starting lineup of the USA National…

In 2007, at 18 years old, I was arrested in Edgewater, New Jersey. My vehicle, then, was a black 2004 Saturn. The car was parked near 725 River Road Edgewater, NJ at the time of the arrest. The passengers with me included my sister, Tianna DeJesus, who was sitting in the back seat, and my boyfriend at the time, Ralph Fernandez, who was in the passenger seat. The police officer pulled next to my vehicle and asked why we were parked there. Mr. Fernandez was smoking marijuana and dropped the…

incident to that arrest."Stop and Frisk." TheFreeDictionary.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Aug. 2016. Investigatory detention became an important law enforcement technique in the 1980s as police sought to curtail the trafficking of illegal drugs. In the United States v. Sokolow, 490 U.S. 1, 109 S. Ct. 1581, 104 L. Ed. 2d 1 (1989), the Supreme Court ruled that the police have the power to detain, question, and investigate suspected drug couriers. The case involved a Terry stop at an international…

On 09/02/2015 at approximately 1020 hours, I was dispatched to 100 Stone Path Drive (Cobble Stone Apartment), in reference to a breaking and entering that already occurred. Upon my arrival I spoke with the property manager of the Apartment complex, Billie Suzanne Shaffer, who stated that sometime between 09/01/2015 at 0800 hours and 09/02/2015 at 0900 hours, someone had broken into the property business center via back door. Ms. Shaffer stated that when she returned to the business at…

On Wednesday, April 16, 2016 C-1 and C-2 flagged down and Officer from the Metropolitan Police Department and reported that she set up a meeting on Offer Up at the listed location to sell a Silver iPhone 6s. C-1 stepped out of his vehicle to show to Christopher Taylor herein referred to as R-1 the phone. S-2 came from and unknown location and approached C-1 from behind and unknown object in his back. C-1 turned to seen what was happening, R-1 snatched the phone out of C-1 hand and fled on…

a handgun. The gun was wrongfully tried for evidence in the Cook County Circuit Court. His attorney rightfully filed a motion to have the gun evidence suppressed before the trial. Wardlow and his attorney fought that the pat-down violated the fourth amendment against unreasonable search and seizure because the police had no…

Billings Police often use Checkpoints or roadblocks to stop and check random drivers and vehicles on public roads looking to make sure Billings drivers have Insurance on the vehicles that they are driving and to check for any impaired drivers due to alcohol and drug consumption. Most of the time these check point are done in the very early morning hours or on weekends or either surrounding holidays or on the holiday it’s self. The Billings Police used a Breathalyzer test on this man to see…