Exceptions in Fourth Amendment Privacy Provision

Running head: EXCEPTIONS IN FOURTH AMENDMENT PRIVACY LAW 1
Exceptions in Fourth Amendment Privacy Provision
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EXCEPTIONS IN FOURTH AMENDMENT PRIVACY LAW 2
Exceptions in Fourth Amendment Privacy Provision
The fourth amendment, as provided in the constitution of the U.S. stipulates that people
have a right to security and be protected against unwarranted search by the police in their houses,
persons, cell phones. The amendment protects them against unreasonable seizures and searches
and such a right is not to be violated, warrants shall not be given except upon probable causes
that have support through affirmation or oath with particular description of the places of search
including the things or persons to undergo seizure. The primary objective of the provision under
the law involves having the right of people regarding freedom and privacy protected from the
government’s intrusions found to be unreasonable (LaFave, 2014). However, this statute does
not guarantee the protection from all forms of seizures and searches except for those that the
government does and are deemed quite unreasonable by the law. For people to claim violation of
this amendment as the cause of suppressing relevant evidence for a given case, the court had the
requirement that the claimant is to prove being the victim of invaded privacy so that there is
valid standing for claiming to be protected by the provisions. The Supreme Court has however,
departed from the requirements after an aspect of exception was determined to entirely offer a
solution to the substantive querry of whether there was a violation of rights as stipulated
(Slobogin, 2013). The claimant is required to demonstrate an expectation of privacy that is
justifiable to have been violated by the government arbitrarily. Generally most warrantless
searches on people are prohibited under this fourth amendment except for specified exceptions.
For instance warrantless searches may be lawful when officers are asked or given the
consent to conduct a search; if such searches are incident to arrest that is lawful, when a probable
cause for searching exists, or an exigent circumstance exits, calling for this type of search.
Exigent situations occur when there is a case with people being in imminent danger, prior to the