This chapter provides an annotated overview of resources useful for researching. Massachusetts criminal practice and procedure.The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated. 31 days is simply too long for law enforcement officers to possess an arrestee's phone prior to obtaining a search warrant for it. Under the Fourth Amendment, a police officer may use only such force as is "objectively reasonable" under the circumstances. Forensic science plays a crucial role in our criminal justice system. The multiple sections of the Laboratory include Biological Sciences, Firearms, Trace Evidence, Drug Chemistry, Crime Scene Investigations and Reconstruction. Fourth Amendment Center Amicus Briefs. -The warrant requirement in the Fourth Amendment was created to protect abuses of warrants not abuses of arrests without warrants. The Suffolk County Office of the Medical Examiner is a multi-agency accredited forensic science resource.