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Article: The naked truth: Fourth Amendment lessons from the U.S. Supreme Court: a review of recent home-search cases from the U.S. Supreme Court, including the Rettele case from May, where the Court ruled that police didn't act unreasonably when they forced search subjects of a different race than those they were seeking to stand naked in their own bedroom.
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- Illinois Bar Journal
- Article date:
- July 1, 2007
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The past 18 months have been busy for the united states supreme court, especially as far as Fourth amendment jurisprudence is concerned. During that time, the court issued five decisions addressing the application of the Fourth amendment to searches of private residences.
Specifically, the Court decided whether one cotenant can consent to a search of a residence over the express objection of another cotenant, whether a triggering condition must be included on the face of an anticipatory search warrant, whether the exclusionary rule applies to remedy knock-and-announce violations, whether an officer's underlying subjective intent may obviate an objectively ...