Problem
• What is Mapp vs. Ohio about? What was the significance of the case?
• What is the Exclusionary Rule?
• Read the article on New Zealand Police (click below) conducting illegal searches after their mosque massacre. The US Supreme Court has to balance your right to privacy and to be secure in you homes, vehicles and person and to overall public safety. After 911, the USA Patriot Act was enacted giving law enforcement surveillance, GPS and wiretapping powers with minimal court oversight at times none. Doo an internet search on the Act for background.
Under what circumstances would you forfeit search and seizure protection? After 911 to catch terrorist? After the Boston Marathon bombing to catch the two brothers involved? After the Mandalay Bay shooting? Why? Why? Explain?