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Fourth Amendment -- Search and Seizure

  Search and Seizure........................................ 1199
  
  History and Scope of the Amendment........................ 1199
  History........................................... 1199
  Scope of the Amendment............................ 1200
  The Interest Protected............................ 1205
  Arrests and Other Detentions...................... 1209
  Searches and Inspections in Noncriminal Cases..... 1211
  
  Searches and Seizures Pursuant to Warrant................. 1215
  Issuance by Neutral Magistrate.................... 1216
  Probable Cause.................................... 1217
  Particularity..................................... 1220
  First Amendment Bearing on Probable Cause and
  Particularity................................. 1221
  Property Subject to Seizure....................... 1223
  Execution of Warrants............................. 1226
  
  Valid Searches and Seizures Without Warrants.............. 1228
  Detention Short of Arrest: Stop-and-Frisk......... 1229
  Search Incident to Arrest......................... 1234
  Vehicular Searches................................ 1238
  Vessel Searches................................... 1241
  Consent Searches.................................. 1242
  Border Searches................................... 1243
  ``Open Fields''................................... 1245
  ``Plain View''.................................... 1246
  Public Schools.................................... 1246
  Government Offices................................ 1247
  Prisons and Regulation of Probation............... 1247
  Drug Testing...................................... 1248
  
  Electronic Surveillance and the Fourth Amendment.......... 1250
  The Olmstead Case................................. 1250
  Federal Communications Act........................ 1251
  Nontelephonic Electronic Surveillance............. 1251
  The Berger and Katz Cases......................... 1252
  Warrantless ``National Security'' Electronic
  Surveillance.................................. 1255
  
  Enforcing the Fourth Amendment: The Exclusionary Rule..... 1257
  Alternatives to the Exclusionary Rule............. 1257
  Development of the Exclusionary Rule.............. 1258
  The Foundations of the Exclusionary Rule.......... 1262
  Narrowing Application of the Exclusionary Rule.... 1264
  Operation of the Rule: Standing................... 1269
  
	    

[[Page 1199]] FOURTH AMENDMENT

SEARCH AND SEIZURE

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 Warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.


"Constitution of the United States, Analysis and Interpretation: 2002 Edition" U.S. Government Printing Office.



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