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Article: A few new developments in the Fourth Amendment
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- The Army Lawyer
- Article date:
- April 1, 1999
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CopyrightCopyright Superintendent of Documents Apr 1999. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Introduction The past year has been relatively quiet along the Fourth Amendment front. The Supreme Court has issued only four opinions addressing significant search and seizure issues.' Similarly, the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (CAAF) has issued only a handful of published opinions on the topic.2 Given the paucity of cases, one might assume that the Fourth Amendment, despite all of its requirements and exceptions, is a relatively stable body of case law. One might also expect that the few cases from the Supreme Court and the military courts leave important Fourth Amendment doctrines unchanged, and that few questions remain.
Those assumptions would be incorrect. Several of the ...