Description
Designed as a quick reference to doctrines and cases, Search and Seizure Checklists provides guidance to Fourth Amendment applications. Covers the law of arrest, search and seizure, standing, forfeiture, derivative evidence, exclusionary rule, justification to seize, warrantless searches, stop and frisk, vehicle searches, and border and immigration searches. Addresses searches under exigent circumstances, observations made by officers inside and outside the curtilage of a house, and airport searches. Highlights U.S. Supreme Court cases, including Minnesota v. Carter, Wyoming v. Houghton, Knowles v. Iowa. Also features recent case law on suspicionless drug testing, canine searches, and school searches.
Features
- Identifies search warrant requirements
- Outline format identifies elements of each constitutional area
- Provides basic definitions of search, seizure, and the exclusionary rule
- Quick reference to recent doctrines and cases
- Table of cases
- Thorough Fourth Amendment coverage
- Timesaving guide provides instant access to current search and seizure law developments
- Cites significant federal cases for each legal proposition to illustrate the application and source of the rules