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Fourth Amendment and Citizens' Rights

Southern New Hampshire University CJ 112 Module Three Assignment Template Prompt Student Response Amendment: Choose the Fourth, Sixth, or Eighth Amendment Amendment: The Fourth Amendment-Right to Search or Seizure Summary: Summary: The Fourth Amendment is basically protect against "unreasonable" search and seizures and In 100-150 words, summarize the to conduct a legal search and or seizure a police officer must have a warrant that is obtained and amendment you chose. Be sure your signed by a judge and in order to get and obtain this they have to have reasonable cause and present summary includes all rights given to evidence to the judge that there is a probable case at the given time. The Fourth amendment makes citizens in that particular amendment. sure that the police cannot enter a person's home or arrest a person without evidence/ a warrant issued by a judge. Citizens' Rights: Citizens' Rights: A real life example would have to be if a citizen, a murderer to be exact was on the Identify a real-world example of where citizens' rights under the Bill of suspecting said individual to strike again but aren't for sure and don't have enough conclusive Rights may not be guaranteed. evidence but think that said persona may be posing a risk and people are in imminent danger then I (Clearly explain where citizens' rights am sure a warrantless search would be conducted without a doubt or question asked could conflict with the intention of criminal justice professionals to ensure safety.) Professionals: Professionals: Identify three to five examples of how For one the professional job of the judge cannot be done if they lawfully doesn't see it the specific rights given to citizens in reasonable enough to handout a warrant no matter how much the official approaching them your chosen amendment might may personally want to go search and seize a persons or even have a strong belief that it is potentially restrict the actions of needed. I know within the criminal justice system professionals all have a mutual respect for professionals in the criminal justice another since they're all trying to make the system better but I also know that some may have system. such a high respect for one another and their thoughts and opinions they might let that get in Southern New Hampshire University Student Response Prompt the way of them genuinely abiding by each amendment to their full extent Police officers might be put into a bind and have to push back a case considering they just don't have enough evidence to dig deeper into the case and facts like they want to in order to essentially help them solve it or get it closed in a timely manner And adding onto the last point above police officers may also try to cross boundaries and lines when it comes to them trying to unlawfully obtain information or items without a warrant which will later on make the evidence found without a warrant not even able to be used anym