Searches and seizures

The San Bernardino shooting was a tragic event. A cell phone recovered after the shooting has been collected as evidence. Law enforcement believes that unlocking the phone which is an iPhone would help them learn more about the attack and plans. They also believe that this would allow them to intercept future attacks and protect innocent people. Guessing the code incorrectly ten times is believed to erase the data on the phone (Lichtblau). The government has reached out to Apple INC. asking for…

protected from unreasonable search and seizure. This extends to the internet. People’s search history is their own business and the federal government doesn’t have the authority to violate American’s right. The only time that the government can obtain that information is by getting the court’s permission to do so. James Madison wrote this so that the government doesn’t start becoming tyrannical and this is just a stepping stone. The government only searches buildings or sites when they…

DAVID FALLSBAUER’S RIGHTS UNDER THE FOURTH AMENDMENT WERE VIOLATED BY THE POLICE OFFICERS, BECAUSE WHEN FACED WITH AMBIGUITY REGARDING THE A THIRD PARTY’S CONSENT TO SEARCH THEY FAILED TO MAKE A FURTHER INQUIRY. BY DOING SO, THE OFFICERS VIOLATED DAVID’S RIGHT TO PRIVACY. The primary question before this Court is whether police officers must make a further inquiry when faced with an ambiguity regarding a third party’s consent to search. The Federal Circuit Courts of Appeals have taken…

Constitutional Conflagration How often one would wonder what a world without their constitutional rights would be like? Today many people take their rights for granted and sometimes people do not realize how much of a necessity something is until it is lost.What if the Constitution had been burned, and otherwise destroyed? There would be controlled chaos. This is a portrayal of a dystopian world, one example in particular is the futuristic version of the world called Fahrenheit 451. The…

developed to keep the citizens of America more safe from terrorist attacks. There is also a disadvantage of this Act because this an infringement of the Fourth Amendment. The Fourth Amendment prohibits the government from conducting unreasonable searches and seizures. The American Civil Liberties Union also states that “ Section 215 of the patriot Act violates the first amendment as well.”(www.ACLU.org) The first Amendment gives the people the right of freedom of speech. This is associated with…

The War on Drugs has had negative consequences on people and has not been very effective. Joel Miller in his book Bad Trip: How The War Against Drugs Is Destroying America outlines several of the negative consequences of the War on Drugs and I will discuss some of them. One of Millers biggest arguments that lay’s a foundation for his book is that he believe making drugs illegal and criminalizing them creates the circumstances for crime and violence (Miller 1). While the government approaches…

intercept acts of terrorism. The NSA then gained the power to wiretap individual’s phones,obtain their business records and spy on anyone they deemed could be suspected of terrorism. It was a time of panic for the United States, and these excessive searches without warrants weren’t given a second thought. However, it is now 2014 and citizen’s privacy is still being compromised more than ever without…

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, 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. Does hacking into personal technology break your 4th amendment right? The government has been under fire recently for believing that they should be allowed access to…

using their right. Furthermore, employees cannot be forced to join political parties unless it is essential for their job, it would be a violation of their rights (Kellough, 2018, p. 4). The Fourth Amendment protects citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures,…

Terrorists. We all know what the meaning of the word means. The FBI started investigating a shooting in San Bernardino, California and recently found the shooters phone and they need Apple to hack into it. Yet, Apple to refusing to hack into it. Why? The issue of “Apple V.S The FBI” is should Apple create a program that can break into a terrorist phone. This is an issue because this could solve many terrorist problems but could also compromise the personal info and safety of Apple customers.…