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    Illegal Search and Seizure The Fourth Amendment was added to the Constitution to protect people from the searching of their homes and private property with search warrants. The founders believed that our freedom and the right to privacy would better be protected. Part of the reason we have this amendment was because of the King George. When he had started to tax the colonies, the colonist would change to other ways of getting goods. In some cases that meant smuggling in goods. King George used

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    1. The fourth amendment of the us constitution provides a right to people who lives in USA to secure in their persons, documents, properties against unwanted /unreasonable searches and seizers from the federal government officials. This amendment mainly focus on the "searches" and "seizures" of the properties of the people A. Searching a person or Property : I). Strip searches and genital inspections of the persons are cover under the fourth amendment, if the governmental employee or agent of the

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    The fourth amendment embodies the fundamental American value of privacy. The right to privacy and its importance to a free society have been understood since the time of the Magna Carta. Protecting privacy against intrusion by government officials is a deeply held value in the United States. Privacy also is an important component of the rights to freedom of conscience, thought, religion, expression, and property. The rapid growth and power of surveillance technology today makes concerns about privacy

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    The Fourth Amendment is the right to to resist unjust searches. A benefit of this Amendment is that individuals homes may not be investigated without probable reason, possessions may not be impounded without probable reason, and in turn, privacy is kept if there is not probable reasoning for search and seizure. If the Fourth Amendment were not in place, law enforcement would not only have the right to search individuals and their property, but would also be able to confiscate their personal belongings

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    The Fourth Amendment is one of the amendments in the Bill of Rights that protect the criminally accused. The Fourth Amendment states that a person cannot undergo unwarranted search and seizures. This means that a person's house, their items, and their own self, cannot be searched by the police unless there is a clear reason to do so granted by a warrant. This protects the citizen's privacy, however, it could allow criminals to destroy evidence before a warrant is produced. The Fifth Amendment grants

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    Fourth Amendment Rights

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    Gillette walked is narcotic dog around the respondents vehicle. The dog detected an odor of marijuana which was located in the trunk and the respondent was arrested. Caballes's Fourth Amendment Rights were not violated, which most would probably argue that State Trooper Gillette violated Caballes. In fact the Fourth Amendment allows a dog to “sniff” around the outside of a vehicle without a warrant and considers this not invading any personal space or a citizens privacy. The only time this would be

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    Fourth amendment of the US constitution states that it is the right of the citizens of the nation to be secure either in person or their personal holdings like their houses or papers and effects without being searched or even can’t be sized and no one has the power to violate these rights by issuing any sort of warrants unless and until the law enforcement officer has a proper cause which intern is aided by oath, which exactly denotes what the scope of search is and the particular persons or things

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    protection rights of all citizens. Since then, there have been many incidents that question the violation of citizens’ rights under the Constitution, such as the violation of the fourth amendment which protects citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures especially in the school system and on college campuses. The fourth amendment 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

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    The Bill of Rights to the United States Constitution, in large part, aimed to protect the privacy of individuals. One in particular, the Fourth Amendment safeguards people from the government conducting unreasonable searches and seizures to include of their person, dwelling, and property. “Probable cause” must be articulated and agreed to by a magistrate for a search warrant to be issued and executed. However, there are exceptions to the warrant requirement for the government to execute search

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    Fourth Amendment Warrant

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    The Fourth Amendment enumerates the requirements that must be met before a warrant can be issued (Hall, 2016.) It is the responsibility of the law enforcement officer requesting the warrant to establish these elements to the judge making the warrant determination (Hall, 2016.) First, the evidence presented must established probable cause to believe that within the area to be searched, the items will be found (Hall, 2016.) For a warrant to be issued, there has to be supporting evidence within the

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