Searches and seizures

When privacy is one of the most desired needs and the Internet is the most used and easily accessed innovations, there comes a problem. How can what one does online be private from the world and government? More important, should it be hidden? In the past, what one wanted to keep private, was and stayed as such. As the Internet was created, thousands of files of personal information suddenly became easily accessible to any sort of hacker with the right set of skills or potential monitoring by…

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,…

An article “Are we becoming a police state? Fife things that have civil liberties advocates Nervous” by Sal Gentile is talking about how the police in the United States are really aggressive to American citizens. A lot of U.S citizens got killed by the police last year. As it stated in the article, the ACLU has criticized the targeted killing program as blatantly violating the Fifth Amendment, which guarantees that no American citizen shall “be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due…

the fact that police had since quite a while ago took after the act of stop and search, it was not until 1968 that the Supreme Court assessed it under the Fourth Amendment's assurance against preposterous hunts and seizures. Under Fourth Amendment case law, a protected Search and Seizure must be founded on Probable Cause. A stop and search were normally directed on the premise of sensible doubt, a to some degree bring down standard than reasonable…

A garden hose, a paint brush, a knitting needle, and a wire coat hanger – they all seem like common appliances which can be found in any household, but in reality, they serve as tools for women who are set on self inducing their own abortion. Whether it is due to financial barriers, social pressures, or accessibility, many women who are desperate for a safe abortion are unable have one. Women are strong and resolute; they should be entitled to the right to be in control of their own lives and…

phone calls and reading peoples text messages. This created a crazy uproar. People were very upset because they felt it went against the bill of rights and was therefore unconstitutional. The 4th amendment grants protection from unreasonable searches and seizures and many people considered reading text messages an unwarranted search. The governments’ defense to these allegations was that there are acts in place that make this legal. ECPA (Electronic Communications Privacy Act) allows the…

proceeding because without it they cannot gain access inside an individual’s house. This amendment protects the privacy of citizens and allows citizens the right to tell authorities no when it comes to unreasonable searches of personal belongings. Also it does not allow too many misconduct searches to take place since citizens have the right to say no. It helps establish boundaries on authorities, since they cannot invade an individual’s privacy and search their belongings whenever they want.…

Kids Have Constitutional Rights Drug Screening is a method for identifying the presence of one or more drugs, also known as drug testing. Children all around America and now in Massachusetts school districts are being tested at random to a drug screening. School nurses are allowed to give a drug test to a student with no reasonable cause or any parent consent if the child were to be a minor.. This might prevent kids to stop and using drugs but it violates one's privacy. The proposal in a…

Under the Fourth Amendment, police may engage in “reasonable” searches and seizures. To prove that they are doing their job right, the police must generally show that it is more likely than not that a crime has occurred. And that if a search is conducted it is probable that they will find either stolen property of evidence…

“Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet,” stated Gary Kovacs the president of several software companies (Kovacs). However, since the implementation of the Patriot Act in 2001, the loss of American privacy is one of the many results of the new set of revised laws that have been rewritten to give the government more freedom in observing our electronic fingerprint (“Surveillance Under the Patriot Act”). In their hurry to act on the…