Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution

Police Officer Alexander Debarros #3776 was interviewed by Sergeant William Silvers #2420 on Wednesday, June 10, 2015, at 1352 hours. Present was Respondent’s Council Shaun Owens. Respondent DeBarros stated that he was on routine patrol in the 9400 block of Lanham Severn Road on December 18, 2014, at approximately 2115 hours. Respondent DeBarros stated he was in uniform and was operating his assigned marked patrol car 5110. Respondent DeBarros advised that he observed a vehicle driving passed…

McFadden was therefore, considered not only an expert in strategies, but also, on criminal tricks and pickpocketing in other words steeling things from a person’s pocket without them noticing. Working in law enforcement as a police officer for 39 years, and as a detective for 35 years McFadden developed an observational habit and therefore a daily routine over the years. In the oral testimony he explained how while patrolling in Cleveland, Ohio in 1963 McFadden spotted two individuals being…

Stop and Search is now governed by 2 statutes; stop and search with arrest situates under the police and criminal evidence act 1984 whilst a stop and search without an arrest comes under section 60 of the criminal justice and public order act. http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/police/operational-policing/pace-codes/pace-code-a-2011?view=Binary, Section 60 of the 1994 criminal justice and public Order Act was introduced to originally tackle people going to illegal raves which were a major…

Mapp for a conviction. The Ohio Supreme Court upheld Mapp’s conviction. The American Civil Liberties Union filed an amicus brief on behalf of Mapp to the Supreme Court. Issue Can evidence obtained in violation the Fourth Amendment be used in state courts? Rule The Fourth Amendment protects individuals against unreasonable searches and seizures of their persons, houses, and effects. Wolf v. Colorado (1949)…

officers have needed the information on electronic devices. They need this data for finding missing citizens and suspects. But have been stopped in their tracks countless times. They have been stopped by the owners and others that believe the 4th Amendment enables them to decline the seizing and search of their devices. They want officers to have a warrant. Provided that the information on the devices are said to be private. The data should not be kept from officers of the law just because of…

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…

The right to privacy is a constitutional requirement that each human being is entitled to. It is alluded to in the fourth schedule of the united states of the American constitution and provides that every citizen is protected from indiscriminate searches, one that secures one’s house, papers, and persons from unreasonable searches. However, this right is not absolute, in that there are instances where a person, his house of belonging is amenable to such a search, especially when it is suspected…

In January 2010, the United States Supreme Court Citizens United ruling struck down the ban on limiting corporate and union contributions and financing of elections. This ruling unleashed a wave of unlimited spending on political ads and other strategic to support candidates and/or damage the image of opposition candidates. The court decision was divided in a 5-4 vote. Essentially, this decision made it permissible for corporations and unions to spend unlimited sums of money on efforts to sway…

its lack of definition in the Constitution. There is no direct Amendment that spells out what privacy is to be expected. The most important case for setting the standards of privacy Griswold v. Connecticut explored this problem. In this case Justice Douglass listed the origins of the right to privacy from coming from the First, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Ninth Amendments and the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Justice Douglass stated “ The Ninth Amendment obviously does not create…

and Frisk Policy New York utilize constitutional laws to govern its state, they relied on constitutional guidelines, for example; New York did not incorporate an express protection from unreasonable searches and seizures into the state constitution until 1938, relying instead upon Section 8 of the Civil Rights La. Section 12 of Article I of the State Constitution contains two paragraphs, the first identical to the Fourth Amendment and the second proscribing the unreasonable interception by the…