A Look at the Fourth Amendment

A Look at the Fourth Amendment
Author: Doreen Gonzales
Publisher: Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2007-09-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781598450620

Looks at the reasons for the adoption of the Fourth Amendment, describes the laws it sets forth, and discusses challenges to and violations of the amendment.

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.

Search and Seizure

Search and Seizure
Author: Wayne R. LaFave
Publisher: West Group Publishing
Total Pages: 602
Release: 2004
Genre: Law
ISBN:

Professor LaFave interprets and applies the Fourth Amendment in diverse factual situations for developing more effective arguments of search and seizure issues in plea bargaining, trial, and appeal phases of a criminal case. Expert discussion covers the exclusionary rule and other remedies, protected areas and interests, probable cause, and search warrants. This work also addresses search and seizure of persons and personal effects, entry and search of premises, search and seizure of vehicles, and consent searches. Explores stop and frisk and similar lesser intrusions, along with inspections and regulatory searches. Also examines the administration of the exclusionary rule.

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 Fourth Amendment

The Fourth Amendment
Author: Thomas K. Clancy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 752
Release: 2008
Genre: Law
ISBN:

A July 2012 supplement of the book is available at this link (updated July 6, 2012). Due to the thousands of daily governmental intrusions -- such as airport checks, traffic stops, drug testing, obtaining of digital evidence, traditional criminal law enforcement practices and regulatory inspections -- the Fourth Amendment is the most commonly implicated and litigated part of our Constitution. This treatise comprehensively treats United States Supreme Court caselaw and takes a structural approach to the Fourth Amendment, addressing foundational questions, such as: What is a search? What is a seizure? What does the Amendment protect? Who does it protect? When is it satisfied? When does the exclusionary rule apply? The treatise is organized by topic so a reader can have ready access to current doctrine and is able to examine in additional sections how current doctrine developed. The historical events and the Court's development of search and seizure principles provide context to, and perspective on, current doctrine.

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

The Fourth Amendment
Author: Dean Galiano
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2011-01-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1448823250

This book is an introduction to the Fourth Amendment which empowers the people as it guarantees interdiction of unreasonable search and seizure.

Unreasonable Searches and Seizures

Unreasonable Searches and Seizures
Author: Otis H. Stephens Jr.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 478
Release: 2005-11-23
Genre: Law
ISBN: 185109508X

A timely, historical look at Fourth Amendment jurisprudence, covering more than two centuries of search-and-seizure law, from landmark judicial decisions to enduring controversies. Unreasonable Searches and Seizures: Rights and Liberties under the Law provides a comprehensive exploration of the development of the Fourth Amendment from the late 18th century to the present. The work clearly explains complex legal questions and pivotal judicial decisions, illustrating the controversial nature of Fourth Amendment issues and differentiating between reasonable and unreasonable searches and seizures. Presenting a wealth of cases and examples, the authors analyze important developments, such as the impact of the Supreme Court's decision in Weeks v. United States (prohibiting federal courts from admitting evidence obtained in violation of the Amendment), the expansion of Fourth Amendment protections in the 1960s, the apparent weakening of rights since the early 1970s, and the contraction of the exclusionary rule in response to the war on drugs and the war on terror.