Search and seizure

“There are certain things men must do to remain men. Your computer would take that away.” Wise words from Captain James T. Kirk. “The Ultimate Computer,” an episode from Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek: The Original Series, effectively details human reaction toward technology and how far advancement should extend. Star Trek scrutinizes the consequences of space travel and exploration, advancement of technology, and militarization. In the episode “The Ultimate Computer,” the crew of the U.S.S.…

Singapore Powers of Search and Seizure Search and seizure is considered as one of the major elements in the criminal procedure that helps in discovery the identity of the arrested individual, identification of the offender, collection of instruments and other evidence of crime for criminal prosecution. Law enforcement officers have different kinds of search and seizure powers such as investigations into seizable cases, arrest cases, search warrant cases, and stolen fruits provisions. However,…

Yet unlike the rest of the Bill of Rights, the Fourth Amendment can be traced precisely to three cases from the 1760s (Search and Seizure: Origins, Text, And History). Two of which were decided in England and the last in the colonies, all three cases sparked strong reactions of the public (Search and Seizure: Origins, Text, And History). The first two cases were held in England and were treated as a pair. Both Wilkes v. Wood, 19 Howell’s States Trials 1153(C.P…

unreasonable search and seizure, coercion, and provides the right to counsel under due process of the law (Cornell Law School, 2007). The Fruit of the Poisonous Tree Doctrine can result in the dismissal of evidence collected at a crime scene as proof of guilt found in violation of the Fourth Amendment. The Fourth Amendment clearly states that the rights of the people are to be secure in their homes and person, papers and effects, and shall not be violated by unreasonable search and seizure, and…

unreasonable searches and seizures. Consent is one of the most frequently used exceptions to the Fourth Amendment. Determining if a person has the authority to grant consent is an issue unique to computers. Today, technology enables multiple users to log on to a computer using multiple passwords and profiles and create multiple accounts and screen names. A password is analogous to a key that can be used to open a locked container. Therefore, an individual cannot grant consent to search a…

from any unreasonable search and seizures, no warrants shall be issued without probable cause, supported by Oath. There are many different types of warrants and many exceptions to when a warrant is and is not needed for search and seizure. Back in the early 1900s police officers did a lot of things that we would consider in today’s age as abuse of power, and police brutality. Freemont Weeks exploited this into his favor…

The Wolf v Colorado case questions the fourth amendment. The argument was about whether it was against and illegal for the police to search and seizure Wolf’s medical office and obtain daybooks without any warrant. The reason for the unauthorized raid was because a women had called 911 about having medical complications after having had an illegal abortion. She named Wolf as the doctor who performed the procedure and arrested him under the conspiracy to perform an abortion. The information…

prevention of crime. They wrote our Bill of Rights and our Constitution, which help protect the people from unlawful acts. The fourth amendment; the right to lawful search and seizure, as well as other rights such as the plain view doctrine; have been set in place by officials for everyone’s protection. The plain view doctrine allows an act of seizure to take place as long as evidence is in plain view, which in this case is. If this response were simply a knock and talk, it…

houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. Meaning that the people are protected from unreasonable searches and seizures by the government while it does not guarantee against all searches and seizures, only those the law deems unreasonable. Which is determined by…

The importance of exclusionary rule is it that it affiliates itself with cases involving searches and seizures. “ In Weeks v. United States, 232 U.S. 383 (1914). Weeks involved the appeal of a defendant who had been convicted based on evidence that had been seized by a federal agent without a warrant or other constitutional justification. The Supreme Court reversed the defendant's conviction, thereby creating what is known as the "exclusionary rule." In Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643 (1961), the…