Fourth Crusade

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…

Photographic identification is more common than lineups and show-ups; however, judges have expressed their fear that the absence of the requirement of counsel at photographic identification "confrontations" might encourage police to abuse the identification process. (Wasberg, 2009) A “photo array” is a head-and-shoulders (mug shot) of the suspect and other mug shot pictures of people of similar age, race, and description, which a witness or victim attempts to pick the perpetrator. (Wasberg,…

The Fourth Amendment: Search and Seizure In the Fourth Amendment, it states “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated” (Cornell University of Law). The Fourth Amendment states its main idea in this statement and through it American citizens and their belongings and records are protected from surveillance, searches, and seizures. However, in today’s digital world government officials have…

distributing drugs in schools should face the law and given the greatest penalty. Qualified immunity should protect officials while conducting searches on students given that drug use among teenagers is on the rise. The children are also protected by the fourth amendment, which protects them from school officials (Savage,…

My partner, Armando and I, both believe that the government should be allowed to obtain wiretaps on anyone whom they deem suspicious without court oversight. However, Logan and Tabitha believe the opposite and have reasons why. Those reasons include personal information about people being leaked because the court oversight were seen to be failing or ignored, and people getting very mad because the government can monitor a large portion of a certain population without them even having a single…

school searches were included in the fourth amendment but that the one performed at the school was justified. However, it was overturned subsequently after a closer analyzation of the occurrence.…

The Fourth Amendment of the Constitution of the clearly states, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated” (“Fourth Amendment”). Its laws also apply to searches done by public school officials. Public school officials, such as vice principal Theodore Choplick…

Concurrence Despite agreeing with Justice White’s opinion, Justice Powell, joined by Justice O’Connor, and Justice Blackmun wrote concurring opinions. Justice Powell believed that Justice White should have spent more time discussing the fact that students should not have the same constitutional protections as individuals in non-school settings. Justice Powell noted that, “It is simply unrealistic to think that students have the same subjective expectation of privacy as the population…

North Carolina case. There was a violation of the Fourth Amendment when the officer pull over the vehicle because of the mistaken belief that caused the driver gets in trouble. However, Heien think that he was not guilty because under North Carolina law because in North Carolina State, the drivers only…

ISSUE: Does Plaintiff have a legitimate expectation of privacy in a purse, not of his own, that the police demanded to be searched during the execution of a search warrant? HOLDING: No. The scope of the search warrant extends to the searching of the purse. A purse, is mobile and the search of the purse during the warrant execution was found lawful. FACTS: On October 18, 1976, six police officers with an arrest warrant entered the home of an individual by the name of Lawrence Marquess…