Unreasonable Traffic Search Essay Research Paper Unreasonable — страница 2

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search or seizure is to discover evidence of a crime, the stop must be supported by some reason to think the law has been violated. And the stopping of a car at a roadblock is, courts have ruled, a seizure. But since the drug checkpoints are clearly designed to discover evidence of a crime, and since the stops are random and not based on any probable cause, they are unconstitutional. The city essentially argues for an exception to the Fourth Amendment for drug checkpoints, because of the serious concerns that drugs pose in America today. But the Supreme Court has repeatedly rejected that approach to search and seizure law, mostly recently when it refused to create a firearms exception to stop-and-frisk rules. Such exceptions would quickly undermine the core requirement than an

officer act only when there?s cause to believe a crime has been committed. While the city claims the drug checkpoints have other purposes, it?s clear they are concerned with only one thing ? discovering evidence of criminal drug activity. Concluding Thesis- I do not believe that having traffic checkpoints violates the Fourth Amendment. The city posted signs to warn people of the upcoming checkpoints, yet James Edmond and Joell Palmer still continued on there way. If they were caring narcotics with them they should be caught no matter what it takes! There are so many drugs in this country that if this is one way of catching another drug pusher and they are not bright enough to take an alternative route then they should be caught and prosecuted!!