Warrant

the United States you were guaranteed this right when the Bill of Rights was written and passed. The Fourth Amendment protects you 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…

Saranac Hale Spencer, which was published 7 March, entitled “Rules May Change for Digital Search Warrants,” Spencer discusses the Delaware Supreme Court decision to require more specific search and seizure warrants for electronic devices. In 2015, Christopher Wheeler, a former Tower Hill headmaster, was sentenced to 50 years in prison for 25 counts of dealing in child pornography. However, the warrants used to obtain the information were so broad he was able to appeal and is now going to be…

in danger, the two police officers entered Chungs home without a search warrant. Once officers entered the home, they found an injured dog in the patio and another dead dog in the freezer. Chung believes all evidence found by the officers should be suppressed after they violated his fourth…

The Riley V. California case focused on whether a phone search required a search warrant. According to Liptak, the issue was first brought to attention in 2009, with the arrest of David L. Riley in San Diego. The article, “Riley V. California”, explains the various issues taken into consideration by the supreme justices. The issues included were: the “warrantless search exception” that allows officers to search for anything that they feel threatens their safety, the justices introduced the issue…

meaning they don’t resist arrest by the officer then the arrest is complete. In a situation where the officer has an arrest warrant for an offender who is concealed in a house, the officer has the authority to break the door open to arrest the offender. Article two gives the exceptions for an arrest without a search warrant. An officer can make an arrest without a warrant if a crime was committed by an offender in front of an officer. Additionally, an officer can make an arrest if the offender…

the owners and others that believe the 4th Amendment enables them to decline the seizing and search of their devices. They want officers to have a warrant. Provided that the information on the devices are said to be private. The data should not be kept from officers of the law just because of privacy alone. If it would be able to help others than a warrant shouldn’t have to be used. The data on phones and other devices that the police can track, will enable officers to arrest suspects. As…

Warrant Officers are the technical experts within an occupational field who constitute less than three percent of the total Army strength. Warrant Officers have a higher degree of training and specialize in specific technical fields such as military intelligence, police, or aviation. Warrant Officers are a form of leader found in between a Noncommissioned Officer and Commissioned Officer. They…

investigation officer deals with about 20 caseloads a day. When the investigator calls the victim, they ask them to explain what happened and they advise how they can proceed with the case, whether that be to look at cameras of the crime or to take a warrant out on the person they found to be guilty. As an intern, I am to answer phones and to advise the investigating officers if they have a phone call, I also take messages for the officers. As an intern I am allowed to go with them out on…

place in 1978 and allows the government to tap into citizen's electronics and monitor them for foreign intelligence information, has changed drastically since the events of 9/11. FISA can now be used to get a warrant to monitor citizens who are not linked to terrorism at all. Though a warrant is needed to monitor, the government has abused their power and used FISA to monitor citizen's electronics without one. The Effects of 9/11 on American Surveillance Because of the September 11th…

between both cases is the legality of the seizures in each case. In the Meyers case, the handkerchief was illegally obtained because search warrant only specified the search to be directed towards finding cocaine and cocaine paraphernalia. The judge nowhere in the search warrant specified that bloody handkerchief was to be seized. In the Hicks case, no search warrant was ever issued at all during the police investigation! One final similarity involved the location of the investigation. In the…