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Assignment belowis tantamount to conducting a criminal investigation / inquiry and documenting your answers with research materials to prove / disapprove your answers / writings / conclusions beyond reasonable doubt.

Proving Your Case:Need Elaborations.Need Details.Need Examples.Need Explanations.

Here are the Questions:

Consider the following four legal tenets or principles: The Exclusionary Rule, The Fruit Of The Poisonous Tree Doctrine, The InevitableDiscovery Doctrine,and The Good Faith Doctrine.It is important to note that, as an investigator, youmust obtain substantial evidence beyond reasonable doubt to prove or disprove a case.

All of these have had great impact upon the actions of law enforcement agents. The courts have sometimes had a very hard time in determining if searches and seizures were unreasonable or unlawful.

If they were unreasonable or unlawful, the evidence obtained was not allowed to be used in court.

If, on the other hand, it was established that the illegally obtained evidence was actually obtained legally in that the police were truly not aware that they were violating the suspect's Fourth Amendment rights, then the evidencemightbe admissible.

1. Do you think that excluding illegally obtained evidence really handicaps the police from doing their job? Why, or why not?Give details.Give examples.
2. What is your opinion of the stop and frisk rule (see Terry v. Ohio)? If you were a police officer, do you think this rule would be helpful to you? Why, or why not?Give details.Give examples.
3. As a private citizen or individual, how would you feel about being stopped and frisked?Give details.Give examples.
4. Conducting Investigatory Searches: How do you conduct investigatory searches? Provide details, explanation, and examples.
5. Legal Searches: Discuss Legal Searches. Provide details, name the searches, give explanation and examples