Obtaining Evidence and the Fourth Amendment

reasonableness clause

proscribes unreasonable searches and seizures.

warrant clause

requires that no warrants shall issue, but on probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Four Important Issues in Fourth Amendment Jurisprudence:

1. pre-fourth amendment analysis
2. reasonableness
3. warrant requirement
4. scope of police action

What does the Fourth Amendment protect?

persons, houses, papers, and effects