Fourth Crusade

explicitly identified in the Bill of Rights or United States Constitution, or implemented throughout the years by Courts and lawmakers. These include: your first amendment right to freedom of speech, your third amendment right, the right to privacy, your fourth amendment right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures, your sixth amendment right to fair court trial, the fifteenth amendment, the right to vote and you also have the right to marry. (What are Civil Rights?, 2014) You may…

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…

A thermal scanner was used on the house of DLK without a warrant, in order to obtain evidence that DLK was illegally growing marijuana. DLK sued on the grounds that the scan was a search, and since there was no warrant, it violated his fourth amendment right.The government went too far by scanning DLK’s house because the scan indicated things about the house that would be unknown unless one entered the house, revealed things which DLK wished to keep private and took reasonable measures to…

current issue a because there have been many stories of sheriff's or police officers searching people, houses, properties, or cars without warrant. The law must have a warrant to collect all evidence, “probable cause,” (Search and Seizure and The Fourth Amendment). Probable cause is the requirement in criminal law that police have adequate reason to search people or property without a warrant. But enough evidence to search quickly to prevent injury or loss of evidence. As of right now,there is…

Rehnquist delivered the opinion of the 7-2 majority. The Court held that the Supreme Court has jurisdiction to review cases from state courts that deal primarily with federal law. The Court also held that the Fourth Amendment was designed to protect against intrusions into a home or onto private property, or the conduct of police officers. The exclusionary rule therefore does not apply to the conduct of judicial officers. Justice Sandra Day O’Connor wrote a concurring…

Search and Seizure Before stepping into someone’s house or property, officers of the law must obtain a search warrant. This is outlined in the Fourth Amendment. Evidence collected at an unlawful search is usually inadmissible in court. Two Layton police officers violated the Fourth Amendment when they stepped in the house of Chelse Brierley to question and arrest her in Utah. She was a suspect in a hit-and-run DUI crash in 2013. The vehicle involved was spotted by a witness in Brierley’s…

she pleaded with him to stop. Once she was arrest, the officers searched throughout her whole house; the kitchen, the living room, the basement, her daughter’s room, and her own room. Mapp claimed that she felt violated as well as they violated her fourth amendment. Even though the search was made without proper authority, the State was not prevented from using the evidence seized because “the Fourteenth Amendment does not forbid the admission of evidence obtained by an unreasonable search and…

The Debate of Privacy from the Government A Critic of “The Nothing-to-Hide Argument” The author of “The Nothing-to-Hide Argument”, Daniel J. Solove, discusses the different perspectives and opinions of various people including how the government may view personal information. The article demonstrates this through examples of what people say and the opinion of the article himself. In the article, Solove argues that the information-gathering programs the government uses to track and record…

questions the jurisprudence of the mandatory application of the exclusionary rule. It begins by stating that the Supreme Court intends on limiting the usage of the exclusionary rule, making it only applicable to cases that grossly violate a defendant’s fourth amendment rights. By citing prolific court cases as references, this article backs up this position by showing what has and has not worked in previous cases. In many cases, the Supreme Court has ruled that the exclusionary rule is not…