U.S. Supreme Court,
Criminal,
Constitutional Law
Sep. 16, 2014
Fourth Amendment geometry
The U.S. Supreme Court has had a love-hate relationship when it comes to drawing so-called "Fourth Amendment lines."
2nd Appellate District, Division 5
Brian M. Hoffstadt
Presiding Justice
California Court of Appeal
UCLA School of Law, 1995
Many lawyers and judges swear they chose law because math was not their forte. But the two disciplines are not as incongruent as they might seem. In fact, the U.S. Supreme Court engages in a jurisprudential geometry every time it recognizes a new categorical or per se rule and thereby lays down a bright line under the Fourth Amendment. The most recent such line was drawn in Riley v. California, 134 S. Ct. 2473 (2014), between digital and nondigital evidence, holding that only the ...
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