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Equal Justice Under the Law. Case Law 4 Cops contains information on hundreds of court cases. These cases are important to officers and citizens alike. The cases cover what officers can and cannot do in several areas of law. Follow the links below.
This case presents questions concerning the constitutional requirements for obtaining a state search warrant. Two Houston police officers applied to a local Justice of the Peace for a warrant to search for narcotics in petitioner's home.
Click on the case titles to link to the full case decision. Carroll v. U.S. , 267 U.S. 132 (1925)-Police may conduct a warrantless search of a vehicle stopped on traffic if there is probable cause to believe that the vehicle contains contraband or evidence.
The following cases are landmark cases for law enforcement. They significantly affected the way police conduct themselves during the course of their employment. Select the category of case law.
Maroney, we held that police officers with probable cause to search an automobile at the scene where it was stopped could constitutionally do so later at the station house without first obtaining a warrant.
The question in this case is what standard of proof is required by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution in a civil proceeding brought under state law to commit an individual involuntarily for an indefinite period to a state mental hospital.
US v. Robinson, 414 U.S. 218 (1973)-A police officer can conduct a search incident to arrest that can go beyond just a pat frisk. The search is also not restricted by the nature of the offense. In this case, the defendant was arrested for driving with a revoked license. The officer searched a cigarette pack and found heroine.
Click on the case titles to link to the full case decision. California v. Ciraolo , 476 U.S. 207(1986)-The Fourth Amendment simply does not require police traveling in the public airways at 1000 feet in a fixed wing aircraft to obtain a warrant in order to observe what is visible to the naked eye.
A Fort Worth, Tex., police officer stopped respondent's automobile at night at a routine driver's license checkpoint, asked him for his license, shined his flashlight into the car, and saw an opaque, green party balloon, knotted near the tip, fall from respondent's hand to the seat beside him.
Where, during the course of seizing an out-numbered mentally ill individual who is a danger only to himself, police officers choose to deploy a taser in the face of stationary and non-violent resistance to being handcuffed, those officers use unreasonably excessive force.