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This 11 page paper focuses on the People v. Dilworth case where a search of a student's belongings was deemed legal by the Illinois Supreme Court, because the officer was part of the school staff. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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officer is under the jurisdiction of the same Fourth Amendment as that of a search administered by a school officiali. The People v. Dilworth, 661 N.E.2d 310 was the deciding
case; it involved a search of a student that was conducted by a liaison police officerii. The officer happened to be employed
by the Joliet Police Department but was assigned full-time to the high school; when he searched a boy named Kenneth Dilworth, after teachers heard him tell other students that Kenneth
had sold drugs and would have moreiii, that is when the trouble started. The liaison police officer found nothing on Kenneth himself, but later on, the liaison officer saw Kenneth
in addition to another student talking and laughing near their lockers and he heard rhetoric to the effect that they had gotten away with somethingiv. The officer also noticed that
Kenneth was holding a flashlight, and when he grabbed it, unscrewed it there was a bag of cocaine inside of the flashlightv. His hunch was correct. Of course, it was
more than a hunch. The information with which he was provided gave him a reasonable belief that Kenneth Dilbert was in the possession of drugs.
The case is clearly poignant in a sea of cases concerning individual rights and freedoms. It is certainly apropos in todays climate where freedoms are given
up for safety. This case involved the fourth amendment certainly, but it also involves a war on drugs. In this war on drugs, there seems to be little tolerance for
constitution protections and in fact, Dilworth was convicted, something which with many disagree. Fourth
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