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In five pages this paper considers three ways in which the American criminal justice system has been influenced by the Constitution of the United States with examples illustrating the effects of the Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments provided. Three sources are cited in the bibliography.
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intended to lay a permanent foundation for the American system of criminal justice that would be built upon and further cemented by laws that would defend the rights of both
society and the individual. The wording is careful and deliberate so that it could be judicially interpreted and applied to the constantly changing demands being placed upon the criminal
justice system. The influence of this amazing document has been widespread in obvious ways but also in a subtler manner of which the average citizen may not even be
aware. The Fourth Amendment, which was ratified in 1791, was initially intended to address the unlawful searching and seizing of citizens within the security of their homes without articulating some
type of probable cause. This Amendment was established to protect an individual from any type of unlawful invasion of privacy at home without an expressed reason for so doing.
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 had a profound effect on the U.S. criminal justice system, and the issue of privacy rights was at the forefront. Did
the federal government have the right to impinge upon the rights of citizens suspected of committing or conspiring to commit criminal or terrorist acts? The practice of electronic surveillance
was certainly nothing new. Two months prior to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the Police Department of Tampa, Florida was using a type of
face recognition software called FaceIt in an effort to protect those enjoying the Ybor City nightlife from being victimized by crime (Taslitz, 2002). The software would scan images of
people in the crowd and if a wanted criminal was among them based upon a crime database cross-comparison, an arrest would be made (Taslitz, 2002). After 9/11, the Pentagon
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