Fourth Amendment Essay

INTRODUCTION: This case involves Pasadena Fire Department (PFD) RA & Engine #33 responding to 500 N. Madison Ave., in regards to an unknown medical call. Upon their arrival to the residence, they knocked on the front door and there was no answer. Fearing that someone inside was having a serious medical emergency, they forced their way through one of the windows located north of the front door, damaging the lock and cracking another window during the process. EVIDENCE: I took a series of…

You need to be careful out there as there is a new trick that thieves are using in gas stations in order to steal from you. It all began when a group of criminals noticed a man at a South Fulton County gas station out in Georgia. They decided to try to steal from the man that was putting gas into his vehicle. The criminals were in a Lexus minivan and decided to use their trick. Their trick was to distract the man by throwing a handbag out the car, that way while he's distracted they can steal…

Mrs. Van Bliven claims that her $25,000 necklace was taken, but image and text evidence suggest otherwise. For this reason, Mrs. Van Bliven should be arrested and the necklace is in her room. Mrs. Van Bliven had a motive to stage the heist in pursuance to gain insurance money from the “crime”. First, if someone were to break glass to get into a room, the fragments would normally end up inside the room, as the person is impacting the windowpane from the outside to gain access. In this case, the…

On 09/12/2016 I, William Van Scoter was working as a Patrol Officer for the Wichita State University Police Department in Wichita Sedgwick County Kansas 67260. At approximately 1126 hours I was called by my dispatch and informed of a noise complaint and possible odor of burnt marijuana at the South Fairmount Towers on the fifth floor. I arrived at the South Towers at approximately 1127 hours. Upon my arrival to the fifth floor of the South Towers, I was met by a white male, later identified by…

On Sunday, February 26, 2017, at around 11:24 pm, I, Sergeant Bever was parked at the Circle K gas station at Highway 90 and Highway 57. A person approached me and informed me that a red truck had been stopped at the intersection for a long period of time. I drove to the intersection and found a red Chevrolet Silverado (MS Tag: JK7 733) stopped in the left northbound lane. I got out of my vehicle and approached the truck. I found a black male later identified as Demario Coleman (DOB 5/18/1988)…

This provision can be seen as an erosion of the Sixth Amendment which includes the rights to due process of court and trial by a jury. The Sixth Amendment states that the person accused is entitled to “the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed” and also have the right…

court found that you need a search warrant to go up to the attic or bedrooms not an arrest warrant. 6. separate opinions- the supreme court judge said every state law enforcement runs into troubles and now with having things straight forward the 4th amendment of the united states constitution protects people from unreasonable search and seizures. You can go in with an arrest warrant to search the attic. When you have an arrest warrant your arresting the person and securing anything around him…

Summary B.C’s controversial automatic roadside prohibition (ARP) scheme – the toughest drinking and driving law in the country – has been largely upheld in a recent decision by the Supreme Court of Canada. Introduced in 2010, the ARP scheme involved efforts to remove impaired drivers from B.C’s roads through the use of license suspensions, financial penalties and remedial programs. The scheme necessitates roadside checks and analysis of drivers’ breath samples using an approved screening device…

Although it has not been expressly limited, this fourth element seems to be required only in prison escape cases. United States v. Peltier, 693 F.2d 96, 98 (9th Cir.1982) (per curium); United States v. Michelson, 559 F.2d 567, 570 (9th Cir.1977). The court held that a defendant who has acted under a urgent…

Particular circumstances can deny a defendant from asserting a germane counterclaim. In Giambuttista v. Bradlees, Inc., 130 N.J. Super. 381 (Super. Ct. 1974), the court denied a defendant’s counterclaim due to it being barred by the statute of limitations and prejudicing the plaintiff’s rights since a medial investigation was involved. In that case, the plaintiff had filed assault and battery charges against defendant shopkeeper and defendant employee. Id. at 382. An attorney for the defendant…