POLSC-121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Miranda Warning, Due Process, Exclusionary Rule

• School: Diablo Valley College
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSC-121
• Professor: Wing

Document Summary

Vocabulary: due process, exclusionary rule of evidence, miranda rights. It can even be your rights after you get fined for parking in a wrong place. People can see the passenger seat if you put something on there but the trunk is not: police may search a public area at any time without a warrant. Showing of probable cause/having a search warrant makes the search reasonable and therefore constitutional. Police can search all private areas if they get a warrant. Common exceptions to warrant requirement include : person consents to search. Police can wait for the garbage to be rolled out and search. Police stop an individual and seize all belongings (including a wallet and cell phone) from her pocket. Yes no needs to get a warrant to search her pockets. If the stop is illegal, the police might be able to take her belongings. If that cellphone is not password protected, the police needs to get a warrant.