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    Jones and Maynard were then convicted. The District of Columbia Circuit claim that the evidence was provided by GPS tracking device violated the Fourth Amendment. This raised a controversial question: Does the positioning of a GPS tracking device to track the vehicle’s movements on public streets constitute a search within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment? Justice Antonin Scalia delivered the judgment of the Court that the installation of a GPS tracking device on a Jones' vehicle without a warrant

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    In this writing assignment I will discuss the fourth amendment of the Constitution and some of the case laws. I will also analyze Officer Jones’s actions. And in my own words I will discuss if Officer Jones established probable calls in pursuant to this case. The Fourth Amendment states that the U.S. Constitution provides, "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

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    • Fourth Amendment jurisprudence is primarily concentrated in four areas: 1) defining “searches”; 2) the Warrant Requirement, in which warrantless searches are semantically precluded except in specific and tightly constricted situations; 3) the Probable Cause Requirement, whose exclusive provisions are closely associated with the Warrant Requirement’s proscription of police inquiries into same; and, 4) the exclusionary rule, which presumptively excludes any information or evidence gathered

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    right is known as the Fourth Amendment and it contains two clauses: the first one is the reasonableness clause, which states that we are protected from unreasonable searches and seizures. The second part is the warrant clause, which states that a warrant must be issued upon the finding of probable cause. It must then be supported by an affirmation and particularly describing the place to be searched and what us intending to be found. When referring to the fourth amendment the term person means the

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    The fourth amendment protects citizen’s right against unreasonable search and seizures. Law enforcement are required to show probable cause to be issued a warrant which grants law enforcement to conduct a legal search. There are a few exceptions when a warrant is not required, but probable cause is still needed. There could be several issues that arise with law enforcement seizing evidence from the passenger. Did law enforcement have a reasonable belief that the suspect had control of a weapon and

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    Fourth Amendment Paper Assignment Today, I am presented with a case that puts in question the violation of individual’s Fourth Amendment rights. This case also puts in question the rights of the authority placed in our streets, neighborhoods and towns to perform actions directed towards certain citizens in an effort to serve and protect the overall population. There must be a careful analysis in order to interpret the records of the incident that occurred to conclude who holds the most justified

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    In terms of reflecting what I have learned in this course since Module 1, the Fourth Amendment became clearer to me. The Fourth Amendment is comprehended as putting limitations on the legislature whenever it confines (seizes) or looks through a man or property. The Fourth Amendment additionally gives that "no warrants might issue, yet upon probable cause, bolstered by vow or assertion, and especially portraying the place to be sought and the people or things to be grabbed." The thought is that to

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    Fourth amendment "[t]he right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and noWarrants 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." The Law enforcement officer can arrest a person who had breached the law and demolished the peace or a felony even without any arrest warrant being

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    1) Fourth Amendment of Us constitution provides the following: 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. Explanation: Hence the above statement says that Constitution provides the privacy to the citizens and

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    unconstitutional. The Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution protects its citizens by giving “the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures” (U.S. Const., amend. IV). This amendment aims to prevent officers from conducting random searches of a citizens’ property and aims to give them a reasonable expectation of privacy. Some searches such as a dog sniff inspection are also invalid under the fourth amendment. This is because

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