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Constitutional Law
20 Important Cases
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Undergraduate 2
10/10/2007

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Facts -  A walking patrol officer spotted two men near a street corner talking quietly and then one of them walk

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Terry v Ohio
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Facts - Officers of a nacotics task force spotted Wardlow standing in a high narcotics activity holding an opaque bag. When they approached in an unmarked car he realized the reality a

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Illinios v Wardlow –
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Facts - DEA officials at La Guardia airport received a tip that a man carrying two bags would be trafficking drugs. They spooted him and let him claim the two bags before they approached. He did not consent to the s

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United States v Place –

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 Facts – Two Memphis police responded to a prowler call and found a man crouched beside the home. He ran and stood at the base of a chain link fence. When he crouched in order to jump the fen

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Tennessee v Garner
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Facts – Members of the Laguna Beach Police Dep. Believed that Mr. Greenwood was selling drugs out of his home. They asked the trash collectors to pick to keep his bads sepa

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California v Greenwood –

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Facts - Border Patrol Officer Cantu was doing a causal search of a Greyhound Bus by walking up and down the aisle. He was pushing on bags for suspicious material and manipulated a green duffel bag with a hard object

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Bond v US
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Facts – Two officers respond to a call that drugs are being sold from an apartment complex. The police pull up and stop a suspect who is seen running away. The officers do a weapons search and find a small bag

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State v Wilson
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Facts- Traffic stop by the highway patrol found a syringe in the driver’s pocket which he stated was “for personal use.” The officer decided to search the vehicle and found a women’s purse th

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Wyoming v Houghton
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Facts  – An police officer hears a man setting up a drug transaction and the men drives away. The officer follows waiting for him to make a traffic infraction which he did. When he got pulled

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Florida v Jimeno

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Facts - Police following a tip by an informant track a bombing suspect to a house owned by Ms. Mapp. They try to enter but when confronted and asked for a warrant they cannot produce one. Her lawyer agrees that she

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Mapp v Ohio
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Facts – Officers respond to reportw of shooting at a apartment complex search the

residence where it happened. They find sets of stereos that are

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Arizona v Hicks

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Facts – Roy Olmstead was suspected of bootlegging which was in violation of the national prohibition act. Using evidence obtained through long term wiretapping they collected evidence that revealed a conspirac

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Olmstead v US
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Facts – Charles Katz was using a public pay phone to make illegal bets on the East Coast. The FBI placed a listening device on the exterior of the phone booth and used his side of the conversation to convict h

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Katz v US
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Facts - In 1966, Ernesto Arturo Miranda was arrested for rape. He later confessed to robbery and attempted rape under interrogation by police. At trial, prosecutors offered only his confession as evidence. Miranda w

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Miranda v Arizon
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Facts - Patrice Seibert was supsected in a fatality arson. After forty minutes of questioning she made incriminating statements. The officer then left for twenty minutes and came back into the room where she reminde

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Missouri v Seibert
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Facts- Muniz was pulled over by a state patrol officer and was confronted about his intoxication. He said that he was pulling over to urinate and the officer instructed him to “sleep it off.” When the of

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Pennyslvania v Muniz
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