AJ 025 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Surface Mining, Jury Trial, Exclusionary Rule

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Administration of Justice (AJ)
• Course: AJ 025
• Professor: shirk

Document Summary

Fourth amendment protections: protects the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects . Law enforcement must obtain a search warrant prior to searching/seizing private property. Authorities can track technology much easier now search of tech can constitute a search covered by 4th amendment. Probable cause: reasonable grounds for believing that a search should be conducted or that a person should be arrested. Law enforcements must have probable cause when asking a judge for a warrant. General searches are impermissible warrant must be descriptive. Search cannot extend beyond what is described in the warrant. Warrants not required for searches of business in high regulated industries (liquor, guns, strip mining) Reasonable expectation of privacy: the fourth amendment protects only against searches that violate a person"s reasonable expectation of privacy: the individual actually expects privacy, the persons expectation is one that society as a whole would think is legitimate.