Article: Sneak and peak warrants: legal issues regarding surreptitious searches.

Article: PROSECUTORS DEFEND `SNEAK AND PEEK' WARRANT
The Boston Globe;  October 30, 2003 ;     686 words ...They're called "sneak and peek" search warrants and have been used three times by federal prosecutors in Massachusetts since they were authorized two years ago under the antiterrorist USA Patriot Act that gave law enforcement officials broad new powers. Investigators who were granted one of the

Article: The Fourth Amendment's third way.
Harvard Law Review;  April 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... agree on very little concerning the Fourth Amendment, but one of the few propositions ... clarity and consistency, the law of the fourth amendment is not the Supreme Court's most ... confronts a fundamental question about the fourth amendment that lies beneath all of its doctrinal ...

Article: The fourth amendment and the limits of theory: ...
St. John's Law Review;  July 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... Supreme Court cases construing the Fourth Amendment are a mess that lacks coherence and ... general theoretical knowledge of the Fourth Amendment that animates the cases. The commentators ... commentators agree on what the proper Fourth Amendment theory is. Each focuses on different ...

Article: Fourth Amendment - must police knock and announce ...
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology;  June 22, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... with a search warrant violates the Fourth Amendment.(2) This question had been left ... a search warrant will violate the Fourth Amendment.(4) The Court's holding was ... forced entry is merely a factor in a Fourth Amendment reasonableness determination.(6 ...

Article: Square Pegs, Round Hole: The Fourth Amendment and ...
Brigham Young University Law Review;  November 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... searches constitutional under the Fourth Amendment?3 This Comment shows that a new Fourth Amendment approach is necessary to justify warrantless ... exceptions to the Warrant Clause in the Fourth Amendment.4 Part II outlines how the history ...

Article: The Fourth Amendment and traffic stops: bright-line ...
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology;  March 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... voluntary.(2) The Court held that the Fourth Amendment does not require the application of ... constitutions, rather than on the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution ... ORIGINS AND APPLICATIONS OF THE FOURTH AMENDMENT The Fourth Amendment of the United ...

Article: Kaupp v. Texas: breathing life into the Fourth ...
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology;  March 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... States Supreme Court held that the Fourth Amendment was violated when police officers ... illegal seizure, thereby reaffirming Fourth Amendment jurisprudence protecting citizens ... of a reasonable seizure. While the Fourth Amendment applies to both searches and seizures ...