The Fourth Amendment

The Fourth Amendment
Author: Charles M. Wetterer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 136
Release: 1998
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780894909245

This book looks at the rights against unreasonable search and seizure granted to United States citizens under the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. The author provides historical context and descriptions of the people involved in the passage of this important amendment. Examples showing how the Fourth Amendment is applied in today's modern technological society are provided.

Unreasonable

Unreasonable
Author: Devon W. Carbado
Publisher: The New Press
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2022-04-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1620974258

How the Supreme Court’s decision to treat unreasonable policing as reasonable under the Fourth Amendment has shortened the distance between life and death for Black people The summer of 2020 will be remembered as an unprecedented, watershed moment in the struggle for racial equality. Published on the second anniversary of the global protests over the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, Unreasonable is a groundbreaking investigation of the role that the law—and the U.S. Constitution—play in the epidemic of police violence against Black people. In this crucially timely book, celebrated legal scholar Devon W. Carbado explains how the Fourth Amendment became ground zero for regulating police conduct—more important than Miranda warnings, the right to counsel, equal protection and due process. Fourth Amendment law determines when and how the police can make arrests, and it determines the precarious line between stopping Black people and killing Black people. A leading light in the critical race studies movement, Carbado looks at how that text, in the last four decades, has been interpreted by the Supreme Court to protect police officers, not African Americans; how it sanctions search and seizure as well as profiling; and how it has become, ultimately, an amendment of life and death. Accessible, radical, and essential reading, Unreasonable sheds light on a rarely understood dimension of today’s most pressing issue.

Search and Seizure

Search and Seizure
Author: Wayne R. LaFave
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Searches and seizures
ISBN:

The Fourth Amendment in an Age of Surveillance

The Fourth Amendment in an Age of Surveillance
Author: David Gray
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2017-04-24
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107133238

This book is an originalist rereading of the Fourth Amendment that reveals when and how contemporary surveillance technologies should be subject to constitutional regulation.

The Fourth Amendment Handbook

The Fourth Amendment Handbook
Author: William W. Greenhalgh
Publisher: American Bar Association
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: Constitutional law
ISBN: 9781590310878

This second edition of the Fourth Amendment Handbook examines the 384 U.S. Supreme Court cases pertaining to the Fourth Amendment through 2002.

Search and Seizure

Search and Seizure
Author: Robert Henley Woody
Publisher: Charles C Thomas Publisher
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2006
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0398076529

This book aims to provide critical information about the U.S. Constitution, with special emphasis on search and seizure. It will help law enforcement officers to increase their legal knowledge about search and seizure and create a framework for effective problem solving and decision making in the field. It is practically written and focuses on practical ideas. To help the reader develop analytic abilities for practice, brief quotations from U.S. Supreme Court cases reveal legal reasoning by justices. An important feature of the book is the translation of the U.S. Supreme Court cases into practical guidance. Captions for sections allow the reader to locate materials on topics of concern, such as conducting search and seizure in a particular context. The organization of the book facilitates both learning and teaching. There are also legal and criminal justice terms that are defined for the reader. Close to one hundred U.S. Supreme Court cases are reviewed, and a list of cases by chapter is also provided. It will be useful to not only trainees and students but also to experienced veterans in providing an in-depth understanding of the Fourth Amendment and the underlying principles, which is essential for making effective judgments in real-life law enforcement situations. It also provides attorneys, forensic specialists, and law enforcement personnel already in the field with valuable information for professional development.

The Evolution of the Fourth Amendment

The Evolution of the Fourth Amendment
Author: Thomas McInnis
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2010-09
Genre: Searches and seizures
ISBN: 0739129775

This book explains the different approaches to interpreting the Fourth Amendment that the Supreme Court has used throughout American history, concentrating on the changes in interpretation since the Court applied the exclusionary rule to the states in 1961. It examines the evolution of the warrant rule and the exceptions to it, the reasonableness approach, the special needs approach, individual and society expectations of privacy, and the role of the exclusionary rule.

The Fourth Amendment in Flux

The Fourth Amendment in Flux
Author: Michael C. Gizzi
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2016-06-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0700622578

When the Founders penned the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, it was not difficult to identify the “persons, houses, papers, and effects” they meant to protect; nor was it hard to understand what “unreasonable searches and seizures” were. The Fourth Amendment was intended to stop the use of general warrants and writs of assistance and applied primarily to protect the home. Flash forward to a time of digital devices, automobiles, the war on drugs, and a Supreme Court dominated by several decades of the jurisprudence of crime control, and the legal meaning of everything from “effects” to “seizures” has dramatically changed. Michael C. Gizzi and R. Craig Curtis make sense of these changes in The Fourth Amendment in Flux. The book traces the development and application of search and seizure law and jurisprudence over time, with particular emphasis on decisions of the Roberts Court. Cell phones, GPS tracking devices, drones, wiretaps, the Patriot Act, constantly changing technology, and a political culture that emphasizes crime control create new challenges for Fourth Amendment interpretation and jurisprudence. This work exposes the tensions caused by attempts to apply pretechnological legal doctrine to modern problems of digital privacy. In their analysis of the Roberts Court’s relevant decisions, Gizzi and Curtis document the different approaches to the law that have been applied by the justices since the Obama nominees took their seats on the court. Their account, combining law, political science, and history, provides insight into the court’s small group dynamics, and traces changes regarding search and seizure law in the opinions of one of its longest serving members, Justice Antonin Scalia. At a time when issues of privacy are increasingly complicated by technological advances, this overview and analysis of Fourth Amendment law is especially welcome—an invaluable resource as we address the enduring question of how to balance freedom against security in the context of the challenges of the twenty-first century.

The Supreme Court and the Fourth Amendment's Exclusionary Rule

The Supreme Court and the Fourth Amendment's Exclusionary Rule
Author: Tracey Maclin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2013
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0199795479

The application of the Fourth Amendment's exclusionary rule has divided the justices of the Supreme Court for nearly a century. This book traces the rise and fall of the exclusionary rule with insight and behind-the-scenes access into the Court's thinking.