Criminal Justice: Ethical Problem and Search and Seizure Cases

Running head: CRIMINAL JUSTICE
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1CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Ethical problem
In the case of Florida v. Riley, 488 U.S. 445 (1989) , the main issue brought before
the court was that whether it is fair to get a surveillance footage of interior of an
establishment which is partially covered and whether it requires a warrant to do so. The
United States Supreme Court had held that the police has the authority to make surveillance
footage of a private property from the airspace (Hiltner, 2013).
Search and seizure cases
The Florida Constitution is of the view that the police of any federal law enforcing
agency would require a warrant to photograph or video record the activity of an interior of a
partially covered private property from the airspace. Following the State Constitution, the
Florida Court had held that a search warrant was required by the authority to make a
surveillance footage of a private property from the vantage point of a helicopter (Segal,
1984).
While the Supreme Court of the United States reversed the decision of the Florida
Supreme Court by arguing that the helicopter surveillance did not constitute a case of search
under the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution. While laying down such decision, the
Supreme Court had held that not all aerial inspection of private property is allowed for any
random private citizen may have also flown down into the personal space of another,
violating his right to privacy. However, in this context, the court held that any the police had