use of Internet to play slot machine and other games. Doolittle believes his employer violated his right by monitoring his personal email and Internet use. Employer authority to check email and Internet use has grown in the present time. In most state employee have limited right when it come to email and internet uses. The Court systems also side with employer when it comes to email and internet privacy. Doolittle entered into a at will employment when he started this job. In an at will…
a) Consent to Search In R v. Wills (1992) the court found the following criteria necessary for a valid consent search: 1. There was consent, expressed or implied; 2. The giver of the consent had the authority to give the consent; 3. The consent was voluntary (not police coerced); 4. The giver of consent was aware of the police conduct; 5. The giver of consent is aware of their right to refuse to permit the police to engage in the conduct requested and/or may pull their consent at anytime; 6. The…
Search and seizure laws have been around since the beginning of the United States of America, and have a very controversial history.Many deem the way the laws are practiced unconstitutional, and oppressive to minorities, while others think they are just and need to be carried out to stop crime. Police officers have found many missing persons and have also brought down many drug dealers all while staying in the lines of legal search and seizure. Many people fear officers can overstep their…
who operated a website for a group whom he founded, called the guardians. The guardians questioned President Obama’s citizenship; in 2011 Comerford was convicted of aiding and abetting threats on the President, however the Supreme Court of the United States reversed his conviction the following year. After his conviction was reversed, Comerford went to a local merchant to purchase a smart-phone. Knowing that a phone could be tracked through GPS technology, Comerford disabled the GPS tracking…
school go as far as to going through the bookbag and the student 's pockets. But Safford Unified school took it too far when they conducted a strip search on a student that they believed might have pills on her. The strip search violated her fourth amendment rights which the safford unified school district disagrees. Safford Unified School District vs Redding was a controversial case…
leave to gather information is sharply circumscribed when he steps off [public] thoroughfares and enters the Fourth Amendment’s protected areas.” By ruling as it did, the Grice court handed down an overly-generous interpretation of a license’s scope, the implications of which are worrisome to the future of Fourth Amendment protected areas. The events in Grice transpired on Fourth Amendment protected property. In North Carolina, it is generally agreed that driveways, pathways, porches, lawns,…
this song is equally applicable to the policy of Stop and Frisk. As the lyric goes “I heard the mission bell, And I was thinking to myself , This could be heaven or this could be hell.” The policy of Stop and Frisk arose from the decision of United States Supreme Court in the matter of Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968). This seminal case gave police the right to stop a person on the street and question them and if they can establish reasonable suspicion that the individual either committed a…
Illinois State Trooper Daniel Gillette stopped Mr. Caballes for speeding on an interstate highway. Trooper reported the traffic stop to dispatch, at this time, a second trooper with the drug interdiction team responded to the location of the stop. K9 Trooper Craig Graham and his K9 partner arrived on location to find the offender seated in the Trooper Gillette’s car and the offenders car on the side of the roadway. While the first trooper was writing the offender a ticket, Graham walked his…
Facts: Petitioner Dennys Rodriguez was pulled over on March 27, 2012, for swerving onto the shoulder of the Nebraska State Highway 275. K-9 officer Struble, from the Valley Police Department approached the vehicle where he saw Dennys Rodriguez sitting on the driver seat and Scott Pollman on the passenger seat. Officer Struble proceeded with the traffic stop and verified Dennys’s license, registration, and proof of insurance. After everything checked out, officer Struble returned to the vehicle…
necessary to make such a stop. When a police officer believes he is dealing with an armed and dangerous individual he can conduct a search for weapons for the safety of himself and others. The purpose of the search is important, in Preston v. United States, 376 U. S. 364, 367 (1964) the reason for the search was for officer safety, making searches for officer safety and the safety of others permissible. The scope of the search must be kept to only looking in places weapons may be kept. The Mapp…