More Exceptions than rules? Justice Lewis Powel

Our courts today must uphold due process when dealing with the 4th amendment. They must determine what is reasonable and what is unreasonable. Since the 4th Amendment only applies to "unreasonable searches and seizures", the issue of defining a search and seizure falls upon it. For instance, the stop and frisk procedure taken by law enforcement was in fact considered to be a search and seizure within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment. These types of warrant less searches are only allowed with probable cause, but what is enough probable cause to a certain individual? Are some people not more suspicious than others?

Due process- requirement that the government be fair in its actions

l has even admitted that certain parts of Fourth Amendment law are "intolerably confusing." Some of the cases being presented before our judges today seem unreasonable and confusing. They find themselves making exceptions to the fourth amendment. Some of the th

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