when the state officers attained evidence through illegal searches and seizures might not be admissible into criminal trials. The case was about a Cleveland lady‚ Dolly Mapp‚ who was held for having obscene materials. Law enforcement had learned the materials in Dolly Mapp house during their illegal search. When the state convicted‚ Dolly Mapp appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Her argument was that her constitutional rights was violated under the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution‚ that prohibits
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Today‚ in the United States‚ there are many issues with laws that people disagree with; a major one being the criminal prosecution of pregnant women who abuse drugs and alcohol. State laws are now considerably different in their approach to resolve this problem due to the social outlook on the the issue.(Dailard) The controversy is determining the balence between womens ’ rights to their body ’s integrity and society ’s interest in healthy pregnancies. There is no criminal law against drug abuse
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Policy Analysis Paper Heidi N. Wilden January 20‚ 2014 CJA/464 RICHARD KOWALTSCHUK University of Phoenix Introduction: Policy is a large part of policing in the United States. Policy helps set law‚ and law helps keep order amid the chaos if enforced properly. But every policy must be looked at carefully before‚ during and after enforcement to make sure that policy is and continues to be the best fit for the issues at hand. Sometimes looking at two policies and comparing
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their search‚ but they did discover some pornographic material in a suitcase in Mapp’s basement. Mapp said that she had loaned the suitcase to a roommate at one time and that the contents were not her property. Mapp was charged with violating Ohio state law that prohibits “lewd‚ lascivious‚ or obscene material.” She was convicted and sentenced to one to seven years in prison – no search warrant was introduced as evidence at her trial. Mapp had to write a Petition for a Writ of Certiorari – A document
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citizens is the U.S. Supreme Court case Graham v. Connor which determined that "objective reasonableness" is the Fourth Amendment standard. This standard is still being used today and focuses on the severity of the crime‚ whether the subject poses an imminent threat to the officer‚ was the subject fleeing‚ and was the subject resisting. KEY WORDS: Graham v Conner‚ Use of force‚ Fourth Amendment‚ Objective reasonableness‚ Rehnquist‚ and Supreme Court. Introduction: The use of force
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the author talks about the first 10 amendments to the Constitution and the debates that are still stirring almost 220 years later. John Adams called the Constitution “the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen.” Many other people thought that the Constitution was incomplete‚ lacking fundamental rights. It was missing the Bill of Rights. So in 1791 the Bill of Rights became the first 10 amendments to the Constitution. Debates over what they mean are
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5 Claim: While the Thirteenth Amendment is a blessing for the wealthiest people of this nation‚ it is a curse for the rest of the American population because it led to the hatred of minorities. Evidence: The Thirteenth Amendment loophole was responsible for the creation of President Nixon’s “War on Drugs”. John Ehrlichman‚ Nixon’s advisor of x once stated‚ once stated‚ “We understood we couldn’t make it illegal to be young or poor or black in the United States‚ but we could criminalize their
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Terry v. Ohio‚ 392 U.S. 1 (1968) “Unreasonable search and seizures” One of the many things learned at state police academies around the country is the “Terry pat”. What a Terry pat is‚ is a basic pat down of a suspects outer clothing‚ searching for weapons. The name came be known by a Superior Court case in the 1960’s‚ known as Terry v. Ohio. The case originated back in October 1963‚ involving John W. Terry and Richard Chilton. The two men were seen on a corner by veteran police detective
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officer took in the Federal District Court for the Western District of Tennessee‚ looking for violations that were made of Garner’s constitutional rights. The complaint was alleged that the shooting of Garner violated the Fourth‚ Fifth‚ Sixth‚ Eighth‚ and Fourteenth Amendments of the
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however mandatory drug tests are a violation of the Fourth Amendment‚ the Fifth Amendment and drug testing reverses the legal principle of innocent until proven guilty. In order to protect the rights of the American people‚ drug testing student-athletes without suspicion and without sufficient evidence should not be introduced into school athletics due to the fact that it violates the Fourth Amendment and the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution. Without suspicion of drug use‚ schools cannot require
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