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A 5 page overview of the Fourth Amendment and its Relevance to the Search and Seizure involved in recovering evidence in the recent O.J. Simpson murder trial. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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rights of all men are diminished when the rights of one are threatened.(Gottleib, 1994)."
It is the Fourth Amendment which protects the rights of the individual from the unreasonable intrusion of governmental officials (McWhirter, 1994). The specifics of this Amendment were
first interpreted in 1886 when controversy arose over the specific intent of its wording (McWhirter, 1994). The writers of the Fourth Amendment no doubt had lofty goals and aspirations
when they wrote its words. They included reference to warrants, property and search and seizure but the exact intent of their chosen wording would be the subject of continued
controversy up until this very day. McWhirter (1994) writes: "The amendment spoke
of warrants but did not state when warrants were required. The amendment spoke of persons, houses, papers, and effects, but surely other buildings besides houses and other things besides papers
and effects were intended to be protected. The amendment spoke of searches and seizures but did not define what was meant by a search or how much control government had
to exercise over things or people before they could be considered seized. From 1886 on, the Court assumed that the Fourth Amendment was intended to protect more than just property,
and that privacy, the freedom to be left alone, was also included (McWhirter, 1994)".
Interpretation Over The Years Enforcement of the requirements of the Fourth Amendment has varied along with the interpretation of those
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