CJ 3552 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: English Law, Implied Consent

• School: App State
• Department: Criminal Justice
• Course: CJ 3552
• Professor: Robert Norris

Document Summary

General warrants: authorized searches without specifying the people or place to be searched. Writs of assistance: gave customs officials unlimited authority to search incoming vehicles/persons. Inspired the 4th amendment: warrants require specificity. Incorporation: the 4th amendment was applied to states through the 14th. Important pieces of the 4th amendment: unreasonable searches and seizures o. Seizure: taking the possession of an individual. So, federal = no protection against private parties. Judicial federalism: more protection allowed by state o. No, crossing international border = not entitled to the 4th. Applies to custom inspections and nearby stations as long as the do not shock the conscience . Right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects . o. Protections extend beyond the home, but with limits. Fourth amendment applied in a limited fashion, which only requires reasonableness : automobile inventory search. Whenever your car is impounded, police conduct an automobile inventory search.