Searches and seizures

in a situation where there is an emergency need to search the subject without a warrant because obtaining search warrant will compromise the safety of the public, in a situation of searches incident to lawful arrest, during the stop- and- frisk searches, plain view searches, automobile searches and open-field searches (Lyman…

expired licenses and registration tags. The reasoning was that several other cases were subjected to such seizures without warrant for preserving evidences. Like the People v Diaz case where the court held the search to be valid and the US v Edward case, where his clothes were seized after 10 hours of his arrest to collect evidence. From these history of cases, it stated that the search and seizure in Riley’s case was valid. Supreme Court’s Review on Riley v California: This case basically…

Name Professor Course Date Online privacy The Fourth Amendment of the United States constitution protects against unreasonable searches and seizure by the government. It recognises the right of the people and their property to be free from these searches unless a warrant is issued on the basis of a probable cause. Such warrants can only be valid if it describes the place to searched and the things to be seized. The objective of this amendment is to protect the citizens from arbitrary…

Due to IRS budget cuts, all areas within the CI division are under scrutiny, including the SABR task force. Low seizure numbers for the task force have brought an additional focus upon the task force to either improve within the context of investigations and seizures, or possibly face being disbanded. Additionally, the task force members have migrated to working as individuals rather than as a cohesive unit after significant revisions were…

Will Citizens be killed if a strike happens? “The amendment protects individuals against “unreasonable searches and seizures” (Source A). This means the police have to get a warrant issued from the court and have “probable cause” if they want to search a person’s property. There is always a possibility that a citizen may be killed while the military is trying to…

Although the New Jersey v. T.L.O. (Tracy Lois Odem) case is still talked which happened in 1985, it has a impact of every student who take a purse or bookbag on school grounds. What happened in the case of New Jersey v. T.L.O. is that a teacher found T.L.O. smoking cigarettes in the girls restroom. The teacher brought T.L.O. to the school administrator. T.L.O. denied that she was smoking. The administrator then accused T.LO. of lying to him and demanded to see her purse in an attempt to find…

The Exclusionary Rule The gathering of evidence is an important part of the Criminal Investigation, and ultimately the Criminal Trial. Certain procedure such as the issuing of a warrant and probable cause must be followed in the gathering of evidence, in order to prevent the possibility of any evidence being dismissed at trial. The exclusionary rule is a court-created rule which was adopted in 1914 (Weeks v. United States), and then first applied in state trials in the case Mapp v. Ohio. By…

Bill of Rights. The Bill of rights demonstrates political liberty as in they protect people’s civil rights, such as the second amendment, which protects the right to bear and keep arms, and also the fourth amendment which prohibits illegal searches and seizures, without a warrant based on probable cause. The constitution demonstrates political equality in the fifteenth amendment, by allowing…

I would propose changes in the Fourth Amendment. The changes will be to protect from unreasonable searches and seizures on the inside and outside of the border. The reason is that there were thousands of cases where Homeland Security Agents would seize and search mobile devices right outside the border. Because the Fourth Amendment only protects people inside the border, the agents were free to search, copy, and record any information from the devices without explanation. If the government…

situations in which they could be issued, certain events, specifically political during the eighteenth-century, cause the release of multiple of general warrants to be issued in politically charged cases. This caused a domino effect of very broad searches to civil trespass suits and eventually led to a number of judicial reviews that finished with the enactment of the Fourth…