search and seizure
Law enforcement examination
Search and seizure is a legal term for the examination of a person's property by authorities and the taking of evidence.
The Fourth Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution protects against unreasonable search and seizure, requiring warrants based on probable cause.
The phrase appears almost exclusively in legal contexts: The defense argued the search and seizure violated their client's rights.
- probable causeLegal threshold for searches
- Fourth AmendmentSearch and seizure protection
- privacy rightsEntitlement to personal seclusion
- warrantFormal authorization document
- no-knock raidUnannounced law enforcement search
electronic surveillance · reasonable suspicion · stop and frisk · Miranda rights · border patrol · Terry stop · traffic stop · surveillance cameras · undercover operation · habeas corpus · judicial review · fingerprint analysis · attorney-client privilege · forensic analysis
- policingpatrol, police powers, arrests, police officer, arrest
- criminal lawcrime, felony, misdemeanor, murder, robbery
- Charter Rightsfundamental freedoms, legal rights, equality rights, democratic rights, language rights
- ConstitutionBill of Rights, preamble, articles, U.S. Constitution, Article I
- Criminal Procedurearraignment, arrest, grand jury, investigation, guilty plea
- legal rightslegal rights, constitutional rights, fundamental rights, Miranda rights, Bill of Rights
search and seizureprivacy
Freedom from observation
right to privacy · sanctuary · personal liberty · inviolability · exclusionary rule
search, seizure, searched, searching, searcher, searchers, searches, searchable, seized