Criminal
Dec. 24, 2002
Courts Rarely Hold Intrusive Searches to Be Illegal
Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Laurie L. Levenson - Apparently, very little shocks the judicial conscience any more. In conducting a lawful search, police officers may engage in a wide range of intrusive activities, ranging from administering anesthesia to a suspect to spreading a suspect's buttocks. It is only in the rarest cases that the courts will find that an officer's search tactics were so egregious that there has been a Fourth or Fifth Amendment violation.
Criminal Law
By Laurie L. Levenson
Apparently, very little shocks t...
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