A ‘stop and frisk’ is something when a police officer stops an individual or a group to question and further to search for weapons or any illegal activities under criminal circumstances. Search includes patting down i.e. checking an individual with hands from the top of the clothes and also removing upper part of clothes if the officer thinks the suspect is carrying some armed weapons and is dangerous.
Many incidents happened with the stop and frisk cases, as the officers are unnecessarily stopping and searching individuals, especially American-African in the name of criminal activities. After the fourth amendment, with few exceptions, the individuals have got the right to …show more content…
The Supreme Court has ruled that any items other than weapons seized are violation of the person’s fourth amendment rights.
Finally, the law enforcement authorities can perform search and seizure activities from a suspicious person only if they think that person is carrying illegal weapons for some criminal intentions.
Q4. Describe a case where evidence was not accepted in the court due to violation of Fourth Amendment.
Due to the suspicious activities or any kind of criminal intensions of a person leads the law enforcement officials to inquire them and find out the facts about their intensions. But this inquires may be reasonable or unreasonable. Finally, the courts will decide whether the searches and seizures are reasonable or are they violating people’s rights which are provided by US Constitution under fourth amendment. There are several cases where evidence was not accepted as there were unreasonable, causing the threat to the privacy of the individuals. The Supreme Court, in one of its cases has passed a ruling in 2001 that evidence collected from unreasonable searches and seizure is not