Constitutional Rights Paper
Constitutional Rights Paper
Constitutional Rights and the U.S. Constitution
While arrests must be made regarding the fourth amendment of the United States Constitution, there are circumstances where search and seizure may be conducted with or without a warrant issued by a judge. It has become a recent trend that the majority of arrests conducted by law enforcement are conducted without warrants. "The common law in upholding the right of police officers to take a person into custody without a warrant if they have probable cause to believe that the person to be arrested has committed a felony or misdemeanor in their presence." (http:caselaw.lp.findlaw.com) While law enforcement would rather have a warrant to conduct a search and seize, they still have the option to make an arrest with probable cause or witnessing a crime in progress. However, the probable cause is based on the same standards as those set in the issuance of an arrest warrant.
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English: The Bill of Rights, the first ten amendme...
English: James Otis, Jr., colonial Massachusetts l...Therefore, it does not give an officer the right to frisk or search an individual without having just cause. Failure to have just cause results in the police officer violating individual constitutional rights and opens the officer for grounds of a lawsuit.
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