This text is a functional and sensible guide to understanding the complicated laws of search and seizure. Rutledge discusses the latest law and court decisions and tells readers how to apply legal rules to the real world of everyday policing. The text covers exclusionary rules, twenty-seven search warrant exceptions, search warrant applications (service and return), report writing, saving a case from error, testifying at the suppression hearing, and more!
1. Need to Know. 2. Disassembly of the Fourth Amendment. 3. No Reasonable Expectation of Privacy. 4. Search Warrant Exceptions. 5. Getting the Warrant. 6. Serving the Warrant. 7. Salvaging the Search and Seizure. 8. Writing the Report. 9. The Suppression Hearing.
