Illegal Stops and Searches: Violations of Your Fourth Amendment Rights
Illegal stops and searches threaten your Fourth Amendment rights, yet many remain unaware of their legal protections and recourse. Discover how to safeguard yourself.
Illegal stops and searches threaten your Fourth Amendment rights, yet many remain unaware of their legal protections and recourse. Discover how to safeguard yourself.
The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution protects against unreasonable searches and seizures. Searches and seizures conducted without a warrant are presumptively unreasonable. If a search and seizure is conducted in violation of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, the evidence obtained by conducting the search and seizure must be suppressed. Connally…
In 1979, the United States Supreme Court decided Lo-Ji Sales, Inc. v. New York. In that case the court addressed several issues related to search warrants and their execution. Factual Information In that case, a New York State Police investigator bought two films from the defendant’s adult bookstore. The investigator believed these films violated state…