Cases and Rules Flashcards
Info about a bombing, knocked on door, suspect refused entry, came back with bad warrant, officer’s bust in and find obscene materials.
Mapp
- Held inadmissible
- All evidence obtained by searches and seizures in violation of the Constitution is, by that same authority, inadmissible in a state court.”
Anonymous tip that selling drugs out of apartment, start investigation and submit a request for warrant and police conducted search.
Leon
- Held admissible
- Good faith exception to the Exclusionary Rule. When an officer “acting with objective good faith has obtained a search warrant from a judge or magistrate and acted within its scope,” evidence obtained pursuant to that warrant should not be suppressed”
- When suppress?
- If the officer’s reliance on the on the subsequently invalidated warrant is not objectively reasonable
i. Judges probable cause determination
ii. Technical sufficiency of the warrant
*Whether a reasonably well-trained officer would have known that the search was illegal despite the magistrate’s authorization.” - “good faith” also extents to the pre warrant period
i. Suppression remains appropriate where judge was misled by information in an affidavit that the affiant knew was false or would have known was false except for his reckless disregard of the truth.”
Investigator, clerk in another county said yes warrant, but that warrant had already been recalled, but it was too late.
Herring
- Evidence admissible
- To trigger ER, the conduct must be sufficiently deliberate so it is a deterrable
- It also must be sufficiently culpable so that the exclusion is worth the cost
a. Deliberate
b. Reckless
c. Grossly negligent
d. Sometimes, recurring or systematic negligence
Wire tap of phone booth
Katz
- Held inadmissible because subjective expectation and unreasonable
- Did the party exhibit an actual (subjective) expectation of privacy?
- Was that expectation on that society is “prepared to recognize as reasonable?”
Garbage on the curb, found evidence
Greenwood
- Yes, actual subjective exp
- No, society not prepared
- The warrantless search of trash left outside on the curb does not violate the Fourth Amendment, because a person has no reasonable expectation of privacy in trash left for collection in a publicly accessible place.
- Is this expectation that society is prepared to accept as reasonable? No. it is common knowledge that trash on street is readily accessible to all of these people and snoops, kids, trash collector, AND the cops.
Officer goes to rural home, partially enclosed greenhouse. fly plane over
Riley
- Admissible
- Aerial observation of an area within the curtilage of a home from a helicopter at an altitude of 400 feet is not a search requiring a warrant under the terms of the Fourth Amendment.
- subjective yes
- objective no
GPS device on vehicle to track
Jones
- “When government physically invades personal property to gather information, a search occurs”
- Tracked movements for 28 days relaying over 2,000 pages of data over 4 weeks – could establish Jeep location to withn 50-100 fee
Accesed cell-site location inforamtion and tracked location.
Carpenter
- Yes subjective
- No objective
- Third Party Doctrine
1 A person cannot have a reasonable expectation a privacy when they voluntarily disclose to a third party
2. Court does not apply because of the nature of the information itself.
a. Miller - bank records
b. Smith – Pen register that recorded phone umbers
c. But these two cases – are vastly different from the business records under the Third Party Doctrine exception – that it cannot apply (too expansive)
3. But we can ask the question – is this more like bank records, or more like CSLI data?
- 13,000 location points cataloging his movements over 127 days
Dog sniff at front door
Jardines
- More property based
- “persons, houses, papers and effects:
a. “The home is first among equals.”
- Curtilage is a part of the home itself for Fourth Amendment purposes.
a. Versus open fields – which may be on private property but from which law enforcement can gather info with a warrant
Anonymous letter, drug scheme, partially corroborated.
Gates.
- Yes, probable cause
- Probable cause is a fluid concept – turning on the assessment of probabilities in particular factual contexts not readily, or even usefully, reduced to a neat set of legal rules
one of three men in the car, Rolled up money was in front of him as the front passenger, 5 bags of cocaine in back seat area accessible to all 3 men, Nobody acknowledged ownership
Pringle
- Reasonable officer could conclude that Pringle either alone (or jointly) committed the offense of cocaine possession
a. Joint possession (common enterprise_
b. He alone possessed the drugs
c. This is an expansion of police officers inferences for probably cause arrest
Asked for warrant for apartment, spoke with injformant and looked at building, concluded onlu one apartment on third floor, but two.
Garrison
- Valid warrant
- “the validity of the warrant must be assessed o the basis of the information that the officers disclosed, or had a duty to discover and to disclose, to the issuing magistrate
- The test – was to ask whether the failure of the overbreadth of the warrant was objectively understandable and reasonable (Leon)
- Good faith exception exists to permit inclusion of evidence even though the warrant was bad
- “need to allow some latitude for honest mistakes” made while doing the dangerous work of arresting and executing search warrants
Search warrant, police hid identity, police kick down door and find drugs
Richards
- To justify a “no-knock” entry, police must have
1. Reasonable suspicion that knocking and announcing their presence would be dangerous or futile; or,
2. It would inhibit the effective investigation of the crime by, for example, allowing the destruction of evidence
Officer see driver make turn without signal then speed, pull over
Whren
- detention reasonable
- The temporary detention of a motorist upon probably cause to believe that he has violated the traffic laws does not violate the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition against unreasonable seizure even if a reasonable officer would not have stopped the motorist absent some additional law enforcement objective
- pretext warrantless stops are okay as long as probably cause is established that the motorist violated traffic laws
- Traffic stop is a 4th Am seizure but does not require warrant because it is a temporary detention for a limited purpose
- Where PC has existed, Court only requires scrutiny where “searches or seizures [were] conducted in an extraordinary manner, usually harmful to an individual’s privacy or even physical interests”
Minor offense but leads to arrest
Atwater
- The Fourth Amendment does not prohibit a warrantless arrest for a minor offense.
DNA taken from cheek only taken for identification purposes only
King
- DNA sample search post-arrest for a non-DNA related crime is reasonable thus no warrant required
BAC test
Mitchell
- Exigency exists when
1. BAC evidence is dissipating, and
2. Some other factor creates pressing health, safety, or law enforcement needs that would take priority over a warrant application
ii. This application about Exigent Circumstances is ONLY ABOUT DUIs that’s it
iii. JUST ABOUT DUIs
High crime area, Run away, Throws rock
Hodari
- 1. An arrest requires either physical force or, where that is absent, submission to the assertion of authority
a. As to physical force – “seizure” means a laying on of hands or application of physical force to restrain movement”
b. Seizure does not apply where an officer yells “Stop, in the name of the law”
Believes cops are car-jackers, flees, officers fire 13 times, suspect drives away
Torres
i. Yes. The application of physical force to the body of a person with the intent to restrain is a seizure, even if the force does not succeed in subduing the person
ii. Needs “intent to restrain” because it accounts for the fact that the victim got away. There was a attempt to restrain but it did not work. Court says we need to expand the rule a bit here. It is a seizure.
l. Intent to restrain Test
i. Whether the challenged conduct objectively manifests as an intent to restrain.
1. While a mere touch can be enough for a seizure, the amount of force remains pertinent in assessing the objective intent to restrain
2. Subjective perceptions of the seized person are not relevant
ii. Objective standard
iii. Amount of force is pertinent – 13 shots
Did not answer door, police broke in, no warrant
Payton
- warrantless entry unconstitutional
- Absent exigent circumstances, the police may not enter a person’s home to make an arrest without a warrant.
Valid arrest warrant, not home, wife lets in, comes home, complete search of home
Chimel
- evidence inadmissible
- SITA is limited to the search of an arrestee’s person and area within his immediate control
a. Officer safety
- closet could be sneak attack
b. Preservation of evidence
Followed dude into brezeway, two doors, smelled burnt weed, officers knocked and announced, heard ruffling, kicked down door
King
- Remanded to determine exigency
- i. The exigent circumstances exception to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement applies to an officer-created exigency if the exigency does not arise from the officer’s unreasonable or unconstitutional conduct.
Selling weed for sex out of parked mobile home
Carney
- Evidence admissible
- i. Automobile exception
1. Police can search a vehicle without a warrant if they have probably cause to believe that evidence of a crime or contraband is in the vehicle