In United States v. Vaneaton the Ninth Circuit held that police did not violate the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution by making a warrantless arrest of a suspect who answered his door in response to their knock. The majority distinguished the case from the United States Supreme Court\u27s holding in Payton v. New York, which ordinarily requires police to obtain a warrant before arresting a suspect inside his or her dwelling. Instead, the court found that the police did not need a warrant to arrest the suspect, even though he stood within the identifiable threshold of the doorway, because he voluntarily exposed himself to the warrantless arrest by freely opening his door. In so holding, the Ninth Circuit ignored the firm lin...
In Whren v. United States, the United States Supreme Court held that a traffic stop is reasonable un...
The United States Supreme Court, in New York v. Belton, expanded the area in which a policeman may s...
This article discusses the current status of police in the United States--police can undertake any a...
In United States v. Vaneaton the Ninth Circuit held that police did not violate the Fourth Amendment...
The Fourth Amendment, as decided by the Supreme Court in Payton v. New York, forbids police from arr...
Since the original Bill of Rights was drafted, the diverse warrant requirements necessary for reason...
A health officer sought to enter and inspect respondent\u27s private home without a search warrant a...
The Fourth Amendment to the Federal Constitution protects individuals against unreasonable searches ...
The right of citizens to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures of their persons is pr...
Since the early 1990s, the Supreme Court has increased the influence of the police through a series ...
The Supreme Court’s jurisprudence governing the Fourth Amendment’s “threshold”—a word meant to refer...
The United States Supreme Court has never decided whether any aspects of the common law ban on warra...
The Supreme Court of the United States held that the common law , knock and announce rule was an in...
In Hudson v. Michigan, the Supreme Court held that evidence need not be excluded despite the fact th...
Police routinely use deception to get into people’s homes without warrant or probable cause. They ma...
In Whren v. United States, the United States Supreme Court held that a traffic stop is reasonable un...
The United States Supreme Court, in New York v. Belton, expanded the area in which a policeman may s...
This article discusses the current status of police in the United States--police can undertake any a...
In United States v. Vaneaton the Ninth Circuit held that police did not violate the Fourth Amendment...
The Fourth Amendment, as decided by the Supreme Court in Payton v. New York, forbids police from arr...
Since the original Bill of Rights was drafted, the diverse warrant requirements necessary for reason...
A health officer sought to enter and inspect respondent\u27s private home without a search warrant a...
The Fourth Amendment to the Federal Constitution protects individuals against unreasonable searches ...
The right of citizens to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures of their persons is pr...
Since the early 1990s, the Supreme Court has increased the influence of the police through a series ...
The Supreme Court’s jurisprudence governing the Fourth Amendment’s “threshold”—a word meant to refer...
The United States Supreme Court has never decided whether any aspects of the common law ban on warra...
The Supreme Court of the United States held that the common law , knock and announce rule was an in...
In Hudson v. Michigan, the Supreme Court held that evidence need not be excluded despite the fact th...
Police routinely use deception to get into people’s homes without warrant or probable cause. They ma...
In Whren v. United States, the United States Supreme Court held that a traffic stop is reasonable un...
The United States Supreme Court, in New York v. Belton, expanded the area in which a policeman may s...
This article discusses the current status of police in the United States--police can undertake any a...