Supreme Court Decisions Rungwe Rungwe Constitutional Law (LS305-01) Assignment Chapter 4 10/16/2011 The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states “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 (Fourth
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approaches an individual’s vehicle and sees drug paraphernalia or suspicious items that could be related to a crime‚ the officer than has the ability to search your vehicle for additional evidence related to what provoked them to exercise this warrantless search without your consent. By having drug paraphernalia or other suspicious items in plain view‚ the individual has now given probable cause needed for the officer to search the vehicle. It is very important to understand that in order for a police
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Frankie Singer Creative Writing 10 Laura MacDonald 24 April 2014 Edward Snowden: A True American In the summer of 2013‚ a system administrator released classified information regarding the National Security Agency’s wiretapping and surveillance of the American people and the leaders of foreign powers. Hailed as a hero by some and a traitor by others‚ Edward Snowden fled to Russia after revealing the NSA’s secret operations in an interview with The Guardian‚ a UK-based news source‚ in
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Favor of the Defendant: William J Brennan‚ Jr.‚ Thurgood Marshall and Byron R. White Place: Washington D.C Date of Verdict: Janurary 13‚ 1982 Verdict: -It’s verdict did overthrow the verdict of the Washington Court of Appeals -The warrantless search of Chrisman’s dorm didn’t violate his Fourth Amendment right -Evidence collected at the scene was legally able to be used in the court Significance: - It’s an example of the court’s willingness to interpert the Fourth Amendment
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later the police found more drugs and paraphernalia doing a more in-depth search. “The Circuit Court denied respondent’s motion to suppress the evidence‚ holding that exigent circumstances—the need to prevent destruction of evidence—justified the warrantless entry. Respondent entered a conditional guilty plea‚ reserving his right to appeal the suppression ruling‚ and the Kentucky Court of Appeals affirmed.” The Supreme Court of Kentucky also assumed that there was an exigent circumstance but it still
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cases in the past years. “’ Awareness that the Government may be watching chills associational and expressive freedoms‚’ wrote U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor in U.S. v. Jones‚ a 2012 case dealing with warrantless GPS tracking” (Bailey). This is a big issue because it was warrantless‚ and that is what many of the American people have a problem with. If there was a device that would be created to track your movements and find information about an individual‚ it would look very similar to a
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particularly describing the place to be searched‚ and the persons or things to be seized (The Free Dictionary 2013) In 1973‚ the Supreme Court case Cady v. Dombrowski created the “community caretaking exception‚” which allows an unconstitutional warrantless search of an automobile where the search is conducted by law enforcement in an attempt to protect the general public from harm‚ as opposed to a search conducted during the course of a criminal investigation. (Circuit Splits 2013) This is an exception
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Please read: a personal appeal from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales Read now Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution The Bill of Rights in the National Archives. The Fourth Amendment (Amendment IV) to the United States Constitution is the part of the Bill of Rights which guards against unreasonable searches and seizures‚ along with requiring any warrant to be judicially sanctioned and supported by probable cause. It was adopted as a response to the abuse of the writ of assistance
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the resident does not have to allow the police to enter the resident. The resident can stop answering questions at any time during the interview. Residents who choose to answer question and attempt to destroy evidence put themselves at risk for a warrantless search‚ under exigent circumstances. Evidence in plain view rule applies. Decision: In an 8-1 decision‚ The US Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the Kentucky Supreme Court and remanded the case for further proceedings that are consistent with
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Respondent‚ Tisha Moorer US Government 1A QUESTION PRESENTED 1 .Whether petitioner’s objection to police entry into his shared apartment barred the police from later conducting a warrantless search of the apartment based on the consent of his cotenant obtained after petitioner had been removed from the premises for a domestic violence investigation and then lawfully arrested for prior robbery. 2. Once a co-tenant has expressly told
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