Search and Seizure
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- Protecting Students from Illegal Searches and SeizuresProtection against being subjected to unreasonable searches and seizures is provided to all American citizens by the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution.
What is an Illegal Search and Seizure?Steps to determine whether you have been the victim of an unreasonable search and seizure.- Search and SeizureThe article focuses on three topics: squeezing of luggage in a bus, searches and seizures of private persons, and use of police dogs for detection of drugs.
Criminal Law: Fourth Amendment Search and SeizureThe 4th Amendment protects Americans form the government's use of illegal searches and seizures. This article describes the rules, the consequences and the exceptions.- Educational Law Research on Reasonable Suspicion in School Search and SeizureAs educators it is important to understand the law on legal search and seizure of students. This research provides examples of past cases and the procedure for reasonable suspicion.
- What is the Exclusionary Rule and Why is it Important?A discussion on reasons why the exclusionary rule should not be abolished, and how it is needed for our protection.
- Kansans Unlawful Rights to Search and Seizure Threatened by Bill 2617This article covers the steadily eroding civil Liberties here in Kansas.
- IV Amendment: Unlawful Search and SeizureTwo thirds of the Bill of Rights are geared toward protecting individual's rights and the IV Amendment is one of those. The IV Amendment protects us against unlawful search and seizure. The way that it protects us has not always been the way that we know it to be now.
- Can the Police Search Your Computer?Search and seizure laws are slowly catching up with technology, but many of the statutes are still vague and case law hasn't established much. So can the police search your computer without your consent?
- Court Cases Show Employers' Search and Seizure Rights in the WorkplaceEmployees are entitled to a reasonable expectation of privacy, but under certain circumstances an employer may be entitled to search an employees' belongings at work.
- Constitutional RightsThis paper discusses the "Automobile Exception" to the Fourth Amendment.
- How to Talk to Federal AgentsWhen you are faced with talking to federal agents, you are at a distinct disadvantage. Ignorance is not a defense in the eyes of the law, which means that you can unwittingly incriminate yourself.
The Fruit of the Poisoned Tree DoctrinePaper cover fruit of the poisoned tree doctrine in many aspects, specifically dealing with criminal justice system. Relates doctrine to court cases establishing it as well as other uses.