Youngstown, Ohio

One case that is connected to the due process clause is the Mapp v. Ohio case. In this case that took place in Cleveland, Ohio police officers received information that a suspect in a bombing case could be find in Dollree Mapp’s home. Officers went to Ms. Mapps’s home and asked to come in and search her home, but Ms. Mapp refused to let the officers…

Jesse Owens was a legend of his own time who was the only child of his big family to graduate from high school. After high school, Owens went on to Ohio State, but was unable to live on campus while attending Ohio State because of his race. Owens was on the track team while attending Ohio State and by the end of March 1943, he was placed on academic probation. One of the fastest man who lived, gained the nickname “The Buckeye Bullet” (Jesse Owens) because of his remarkable…

Other exceptions include open fields, canine sniff, booking search and inventory, public safety, and officer safety. The purpose for this rule can be looked at like a way for law enforcements to conduct searches and seizures that do not violate the Fourth Amendment and individuals that have had their rights violated. This legal rule first made its appearance during the U.S. Supreme court case Weeks v. United States (1914). Freemont Weeks was arrested under suspicion of using the U.S. mail to…

On Friday 11, 2016 at approximately 11:45, strands of hair were examined under a microscope to determine which suspects were at the scene of the crime. At 2:00am, a woman arrived home and caught two burglars in her house. She tried to run but she was attacked. She has no memory of her attackers. The purpose of our lab work is to find out who attacked the women by examining hair found at the crime scene. The hair evidence was collected at the crime scene and sent to us to examine. Hair from…

In 1968, the United States Supreme Court case Terry v. Ohio decided that police may stop a person for questioning and frisk, without probable cause, if they have reasonable suspicion that the person has committed or is about to commit a crime. The New York City Liberty Union website provides a total number of how many people were stopped from the year 2002 to 2016, while also providing a racial breakdown of how many of that total were blacks, whites, and Latinos. According to this website, in…

Stop and frisk is an unjust crime prevention that gives permission to provided police officers to stop a person and frisk them based on “reasonable suspicions” of possible criminal activities. Although nowadays it seems to be a way for police officers to harass people on the street specifically minorities. From this program, minorities experienced police interrogations, physical assault, and even arrests, only to establish innocence in court. Despite being declared unconstitutional in 2013,…

Q3. Describe a case incident where a ‘stop and frisk’ is allowed and rationale for it. A ‘stop and frisk’ is something when a police officer stops an individual or a group to question and further to search for weapons or any illegal activities under criminal circumstances. Search includes patting down i.e. checking an individual with hands from the top of the clothes and also removing upper part of clothes if the officer thinks the suspect is carrying some armed weapons and is dangerous. Many…

Resubmission: Exploring if stop and search permits racism. Introduction Stop and search is a power used by Police to detain suspected individuals so that the Police can look for weapons, drugs or stolen property. The term stop and search has been defined by Bryant, Bryant and Graca (2012) as ‘’an umbrella term for 19 powers a police officer has to arrest you’’. However to be able to detain someone for a search it is mentioned within the PACE ACT 1984 that an officer must have ‘’reasonable…

Ohio allowed the American criminal justice system to realize that there was still a communication problem between federal and state departments of justice. “At the time of the case unlawfully seized evidence was banned from federal courts but not state courts” (Mapp v. Ohio Podcast). When there is a deviation between the two systems, in certain cases, then problems can arise. In this…

This class has been a very fun and enjoyable experience in learning about the very important Warren Court Era. The Warren Court has led the way for variety of changes in the United States of America through landmark decisions like Brown v. Board of Education and Miranda v. Arizona. A very interesting thing that I learned was that Earl Warren was appointed by Dwight D. Eisenhower with the intent that Warren would be a very conservative judge, but as cases were presented to the Supreme Court the…