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    CJL 4064 Amendment Project As requested by the committee chair, I have examined the 4th, 5th, and 6th Amendments of our Constitution. It is imperative for the participants of the Constitutional Convention to update, and furthermore, enhance the Bill of Rights. The amendments were created with a valuable perspective on individual rights in the 1700's. Today, in 2010, our country has developed in the use of language, our principles, and our overall society. After close examination of the

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    us with no choice. An article under the title “Does the Fourth Amendment Protect Us?” by Daniel Zwerdling, supports the detail of the government not giving us much of a choice whether freedom should even be considered in a new age of technology. It’s what protects us from the government spying on us (Zwerdling, 2013). Also mentioned in Zwerdling’s (2013) article was how the “world of computers has weakened the Fourth Amendment.” Before technology it was never easy for the government to receive

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    avoiding the fourth amendment can help solve crimes faster and can help with the police investigation. By not using the fourth amendment, it can help solve crime. Without using a warrant, investigators were able to find the murderer. According to the New York Times article Connie Debate was shot dead in her home. Her husband, Richard stated “a masked intruder

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    All amendments keep our states together, but there is one amendment that is especially important. Amendment four is about giving you the right to be safe in your home and your property. There shouldn’t be any unreasonable searches or seizures. The fourth amendment is better than all the other amendments because it gives you protection in your house, no warrants should be issued, and proving is better than inferring. The fourth amendment gives you the right “to be secure in their persons, houses,

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    government. Some include the fourth, fifth, sixth, and eighth amendments. The focus of this essay is the fourth and eighth amendments. The fourth amendment stops the police from unreasonable searches and seizures. This means that the police cannot search or take your items without a reason. If the police pulls you over and searches your car without a reason, then they are violating the fourth amendment and could be punished for it. Police can easily avoid this amendment, but it can still be enforced

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    The Fourth Amendment

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    Government 2017-2018 Fourth Amendment Critical Analysis Paper #2 De’Andre Patton Ivory Johnson November 17, 2017 Introduction The Fourth Amendment is one of the Constitution of the United States. The Fourth Amendment was amended in 1791 to the Constitution of our country, it is part of the Bill of Rights, that have forbidden unreasonable searches and seizures of individuals and property ( https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com). The Fourth Amendment Constitution of the

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    Wong Sun Case

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    fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine the Court excluded the admission of evidence in the trial court due to the violation of defendant’s Fourth Amendment Rights when the derivative evidence was obtained. Therefore, in this essay, I am going to discuss if the exclusion of evidence contributes in an important way of supporting the guarantees of the Fourth Amendment or should the derivative evidence be admitted because police officers could not have anticipated the discovery of derivative evidence. The

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    court case with an intent on proving that the school had violated the Fourth Amendment since the school was a Governmental organization. The Fourth Amendment states that “the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures,

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    right is known as the Fourth Amendment and it contains two clauses: the first one is the reasonableness clause, which states that we are protected from unreasonable searches and seizures. The second part is the warrant clause, which states that a warrant must be issued upon the finding of probable cause. It must then be supported by an affirmation and particularly describing the place to be searched and what us intending to be found. When referring to the fourth amendment the term person means the

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    society is continually evolving, this evolution results in amendments to existing laws. There is also evolution in the sub-culture of the prison system. Inmates are more frequently filing cases, in an effort to establish or redefine how the constitutionally established are applicable to their setting. This essay will discuss 1st, 4th, 8th, and 14th amendments, and how they apply to specifically to those who are incarcerated. 1st Amendment “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of

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