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Consent Searches

As long as police do not coerce the citizen into agreeing to the request, the suspect's ignorance of his rights was law enforcement's bliss. After all, the Court said, it was important that police be able to do warrantless searches without probable cause or any evidence at all. This statement still seems remarkable today, given that anyone with even the most rudimentary knowledge of Fourth Amendment requirements would surely consider fact-based suspicion of criminal wrongdoing the very heart of constitutional protection against law enforcement intrusion, a sentiment dating all the way back to the revolutionary era. Nowhere was this increase in police discretion with regard to searches and seizures more noticeable than in the area of law enforcement power over drivers and vehicles.

David Harris, (Prof., Law, U. Toledo College of Law), ST. LOUIS U. PUBLIC LAW REVIEW, 2003, 75-76

Resolved: That the United States federal government should substantially decrease its authority to......


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