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 Salt Lake
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Read on to learn about the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement and how it could apply to your criminal case. Requirements for a Valid Search Warrant. Reasonableness Requirement. Establishing Probable Cause. An Officer's Oath. Details in a Warrant Application. Neutral and Detached Magistrate.
(1) Consent was given: The suspect must have expressly or impliedly consented. (2)Consent was voluntary: The consent must have been given voluntarily.
The Constitution, through the Fourth Amendment, protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures by the government.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated; and no warrant shall issue but upon probable cause supported by oath or affirmation, particularly describing the place to be searched, and the person or thing to be seized.
The doctrine dictates that three conditions must be met for seizing without warrant evidence in plain view: prior valid entry, inadvertence, and probable cause.
An unreasonable search and seizure is a search and seizure executed 1) without a legal search warrant signed by a judge or magistrate describing the place, person, or things to be searched or seized or 2) without probable cause to believe that certain person, specified place or automobile has criminal evidence or 3) ...
There is no requirement that the discovery of evidence in plain view must be “inadvertent.” See Horton v. California, 496 U.S. 128 (1990) (in spite of Amendment's particularity requirement, officers with warrant to search for proceeds of robbery may seize weapons of robbery in plain view).
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.
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.