Exceptions for warrants
If someone is arrested, the police can search the person and anything around the person that is easily accessible.
What is a search incident to lawful arrest?
The U.S supreme court ruled that evidence seized unlawfully, without a search warrant, can not be used against you.
What is the ruling in Mapp v ohio?
Involves law enforcement officers going through a part or all of a person's property, and looking for specific items that are related to the crime and they have a reason to believe a crime has been committed.
What is a search?
These are the first 10 amendments to the U.S Constitution
What is the bill of rights?
A student put their purse in their locker with their combination lock closed
What is expectation of privacy?
If evidence is in plain view and the police have a reason to be where they are, they don't need a warrant.
What is the plain view exception?
The court ruled that a police officer may stop and frisk a person based on reasonable suspicion
What is the ruling in Terry v. Ohio?
Happens when the government or a police officer takes away property from a persons possession as a result of a crime.
What is Seizure?
The legal term used for looking through a persons property and taking potential evidence into custody.
What is search and seizure?
A police officer would need this document from the courts giving them permission to look through your text messages on your phone.
What is a search warrant?
If consent is given by a person who has the authority to give consent, no warrant is needed.
What is the consent exception?
The supreme court ruled that the government use of wiretaps had not violated the fourth amendment
What is the ruling in olmstead v. united states?
A valid__ must be filed by a law enforcement officer in good faith,based on reliable information that shows probable probable cause to search.
What is a warrant?
Adding, subtracting or substituting words in the U.S constitution or bill of rights documents
What are amendments?
A school official has reasonable suspicion that a student may have brought a weapon to school and searches the suspected students backpack
What is a reasonable search?
Police can stop a suspect as long as there is reasonable suspicion that there is something criminal related going on and the officer has facts leading up to the suspicion
What is stop and frisk?
The supreme court ruled that people have an expectation of privacy even in a public space such as a phone booth.
What is Katz v. US?
A limited search for weapons, generally of out the outer clothing, but also of those areas which may be within reach of the suspects control and can be a danger.
What is a terry stop?
Evidence obtained unlawfully may not be admitted in courts
What is the exclusionary rule?
A school official searches a students pockets for drugs after they were seen walking near a place on school campus where other students have been caught using drugs before
What is an unreasonable search?
Evidence that can be easily moved, or messed with before a warrant can be issued may be seized without a warrant.
What is hot pursuit?
The supreme court ruled that the government needs a warrant to access a person's cell phone location history.
what is Carpenter v. United states?
When a judge or police officer has a reasonable basis for believing that a crime may have been committed(for an arrest) or when evidence of the crime is present in a place to be searched(for a search)
What is probable cause?
Expectation of privacy and expectation of privacy is reasonable to society
What is the two pronged test?
A school official confiscating a students cell phone, that the student was using during class because it is against the school code of conduct
What is the school policy?