Illegal Search and Siezure
It is a calm Saturday night, the sky is clear and the stars are out. The house down the street has invited some friends over for a party. There are a few kegs of beer in the basement and the music is playing. All the doors to the house are shut except the one that everyone walks through, and even that door is shut as soon as a person is inside. As the night gets longer, people get drunk and the music gets louder. Not a person at the party stops to think if the police are going to show up, until some one yells, “COPS!” The music comes to a dead silence and no one mumbles a word. About twenty minutes pass by, and someone walks up the basement stairs of the house and shuts the door behind him. A police officer is standing in the door accompanied by four other officers. The officers begin to inspect the perimeter of the house. This scenario is very common in the life of a college student. In the situation described do students know what to do, say, or even how to act when confro!nted by one or more police officers at a party? The answer to this question is found with in the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution. The Fourth Amendment of the Constitution is about search and seizure. The Amendment clearly states that, “
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Approximate Word count = 883
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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