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20. If a Police Officer Tricks or Coerces Me Into Consenting to a Search, Does My Consent Make the Search Legal? No. To constitute a valid consent to search, the consent must be given freely and voluntarily. If a police officer wrangles a c [查看全文]

Section III: Warrantless and Consent Searches This section discusses when a warrantless search may be legally justified because the person in control of the property is said to have agreed to it. 18. If I Agree to a Search, Is the Search Le [查看全文]

16. The Police Had a Warrant to Search a Friend I Was Visiting, and They Searched Me as Well. Is This Legal? No. Normally, the police can only search the person named in a warrant. Without probable cause, a police officer cannot search othe [查看全文]

Case Example 1: Officer Furlong searches a residence for evidence of illegal bookmaking pursuant to a search warrant. The officer obtained the warrant by submitting to a magistrate an affidavit containing statements known by the officer to [查看全文]

an informant whose information appears to be correct after at least partial verification by the police a victim of a crime related to the search a witness to the crime related to the search or another police officer. Case Example 1: Hoping [查看全文]

Section II: Search Warrants This section describes search warrants and explains when they are and are not necessary. 11. What Is a Search Warrant? A search warrant is an order signed by a judge which authorizes police officers to search for [查看全文]

Case Example: Officer Wiley arrests Hy Lowe for selling phony telephone cards. A judge ruled that Officer Wiley had illegally entered Lowes home and improperly seized a map showing the location where Lowe hid the phone cards. At trial, the [查看全文]

5. If a Police Officer Finds Contraband（违禁品） or Evidence of Crime in the Course of a Search, Does That Make the Search Valid Even If It Was Initially Illegal? No. A well-established rule is that a search cant be justified by what [查看全文]

Book XVIII. Of Laws in the Relation They Bear to the Nature of the Soil 1. How the Nature of the Soil has an Influence on the Laws. The goodness of the land, in any country, naturally establishes subjection and dependence. The husbandmen, w [查看全文]

Book XVII. How the Laws of Political Servitude Bear a Relation to the Nature of the Climate 1. Of political Servitude. Political servitude does not less depend on the nature of the climate than that which is civil and domestic; and this we [查看全文]