This form is a Complaint. This action was filed by the plaintiff due to a strip search which was conducted upon his/her person after an arrest. The plaintiff requests that he/she be awarded compensatory damages and punitive damages for the alleged violation of his/her constitutional rights.
Amendment For Search And Seizure In Clark
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United States, 275 U.S. 192, 194 (1927) ( It has long been settled that the Fifth Amendment protects every person against incrimination by the use of evidence obtained through search or seizure made in violation of his rights under the Fourth Amendment. ).
The Constitution, through the Fourth Amendment, protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures by the government. The Fourth Amendment, however, is not a guarantee against all searches and seizures, but only those that are deemed unreasonable under the law.
The Fifth Amendment right does not extend to an individual's voluntarily prepared business papers because the element of compulsion is lacking. Similarly, the right does not extend to potentially incriminating evidence derived from obligatory reports or tax returns.
The Constitution, through the Fourth Amendment, protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures by the government.
Further, warrantless seizure of abandoned property, or of properties on an open field do not violate Fourth Amendment, because it is considered that having expectation of privacy right to an abandoned property or to properties on an open field is not reasonable.
Exceptions to Warrant Requirement Overview of Border Searches. Searches at International Borders. Searches Beyond the Border. Drug Testing. National Security. School Searches. Searches of Prisoners, Parolees, and Probationers. Workplace Searches.
(“A search warrant for a search/seizure cannot be issued but upon probable cause, supported by affidavit, naming or describing the person to be searched or searched for, and particularly describing the property, thing, or things and the place to be searched.”)
Initial Fourth Amendment case law hinged on a citizen's property rights—that is, when the government physically intrudes on "persons, houses, papers, or effects" for the purpose of obtaining information, a "search" within the original meaning of the Fourth Amendment, has occurred.
The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision overturned Mapp's conviction, on the grounds that evidence seized without a search warrant cannot be used in state criminal prosecutions under the 4th Amendment to the Constitution, which protects against unreasonable searches and seizures, and the 14th Amendment, which extends that ...
Both controversies led to the famous notion that a person's home is their castle, not easily invaded by the government. Today the Fourth Amendment is understood as placing restraints on the government any time it detains (seizes) or searches a person or property.