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      04-12-2019, 11:12 PM   #8
Mason Hatcher
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Originally Posted by Efthreeoh View Post
From Cornell Law:

The Fourth Amendment originally enforced the notion that “each man’s home is his castle”, secure from unreasonable searches and seizures of property by the government. It protects against arbitrary arrests, and is the basis of the law regarding search warrants, stop-and-frisk, safety inspections, wiretaps, and other forms of surveillance, as well as being central to many other criminal law topics and to privacy law

But you are correct, I did not explicitly quote the Constitutional text of the Amendment.
Laws were created based on the 4th; however, an unconstitutional search is not, on its face, illegal. A good faith search later determined to be unconstitutional wasn't illegal and no criminal charges can be brought. Evidence can be excluded.

Sorry, this is my field and I just cannot help myself. I was not criticizing you.
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