CCJS 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Exigent Circumstance, Visual Search, Reasonable Suspicion

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CCJS 100
• Professor: Justine Madoo

Document Summary

Judges must seek to interpret the constitution in ways that properly balance crime control and the protection of individual rights. Police officers" compliance with the law depends on their own knowledge and decisions as well as those of their supervisors. Search: government officials" examination and hunt for evidence on a person or in a place in a manner that intrudes on reasonable expectations of privacy. Reasonable expectation of privacy: standard developed by courts for determining whether a government intrusion into an individual"s person or property constitutes a search because it interferes with the individual"s interests that are normally protected from government examination. Ex. placement of a diary in a locked drawer shows ^ Plain view doctrine: officers may examine and use as evidence, without a warrant, contraband or evidence that is in open view at a location where they are legally permitted to be.