This form is a Complaint. This action was filed by the plaintiff due to a strip search which was conducted upon his/her person after an arrest. The plaintiff requests that he/she be awarded compensatory damages and punitive damages for the alleged violation of his/her constitutional rights.
Amendment For Search And Seizure In Houston
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The people shall be secure in their persons, houses, papers and possessions, from all unreasonable seizures or searches, and no warrant to search any place, or to seize any person or thing, shall issue without describing them as near as may be, nor without probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation.
The Constitution, through the Fourth Amendment, protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures by the government.
The circumstances under which the law deems a warrantless search, seizure, or arrest reasonable generally fall within the following seven categories: For a felony arrest in a public place. When directly related to a lawful arrest. During a traffic stop for reasonable suspicion.
Third Amendment: restricts housing soldiers in private homes. Fourth Amendment: protects against unreasonable search and seizure. Fifth Amendment: protects against self-testimony, being tried twice for the same crime, and the seizure of property under eminent domain.
Both controversies led to the famous notion that a person's home is their castle, not easily invaded by the government. Today the Fourth Amendment is understood as placing restraints on the government any time it detains (seizes) or searches a person or property.
Other well-established exceptions to the warrant requirement include consensual searches, certain brief investigatory stops, searches incident to a valid arrest, and seizures of items in plain view.
United States, 275 U.S. 192, 194 (1927) ( It has long been settled that the Fifth Amendment protects every person against incrimination by the use of evidence obtained through search or seizure made in violation of his rights under the Fourth Amendment. ).
Search incident to a lawful arrest. Exigent circumstances. Stop and frisk. Automobile exception. Plain view doctrine. Consent searches. Administrative searches.