AMENDMENT 4

HISTORY

• Date of ratification December 14,1791
• This amendment is part of the Bill of Rights
• Some people did disagree and others agreed
• People who disagreed said that there was no reason to search

FOURTH AMENDMENT

• This amendment protects us from unneeded searches and seizures
• Police can't come and search or arrest someone without a search warrant
• There are exceptions and times when search warrants are unnessacery
• If life is in danger of anyone,police can come in and search to save them
• If owner gives permission, police can do a search to find evidence

THE FOURTH AMENDMENT

• Also if the evidence is in plain sight, police can come in to search
• They can do a search to prevent the immediate destruction

ADVANTAGES

• This amendment protects the citizens privacy
• The property of the citizens are safe from unlawful seizures
• The citizens are safe from being arrested unfairly

DISADVANTAGES

• It makes searches harder for the police to investigate
• Some criminals that did the crime are let loose
• Some people that are innocent are proven guilty but they really aren't

MAPP VS OHIO

• Police officers came into Dollree Mapp's house without a search warrant
• Police thought she was housing a bomber and searched her house.
• While searching they discovered disgusting pictures hidden in a trunk
• They arrested her and said that her fourth amendment right was broken
• The fourth amendment protected her from searches and seizures

MAPP VS OHIO

• She took her case to the Supreme Court
• There The Supreme Court took a vote
• It ruled 5-3 vote in favor of Mapp
• High Court says that unlawful searches and seizures couldn't be used in criminal prosecution
• In state courts

UNREASONABLE SEARCHES AND SEIZURES