POLS 4720 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Frisking
26 Mar 2018
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Prior to camara, it was assumed that probable cause was needed for the government to conduct a search. Reasonableness had meant getting around the need for a warrant, not the need for probable cause. Concerned the suspicious administrative searches of leased housing to uphold housing ordinances (making sure buildings for rent were maintained) Significance of the case to fourth jurisprudence is monumental. Suspected them of surveilling a store prior to armed robbery. Stopped them and patted them down for weapons finding guns. Guns were found in pockets of the two men who were searched. Whether it is always unreasonable for a policeman to seize a person and subject him to a limited search for weapons unless there is probable cause for an arrest. Was the stop a search and seizure under the fourth. Whenever a police officer accosts an individual and restrains his freedom to walk away, he has seized that person.
