Search and Seizure

Private Individuals Searches & Seizures

The 4th amendment tends to make every proof seized by law enforcement inadmissible in a court of law if in the operation of obtaining them, the authorities violated the due process and the constitutionally assured privileges of the accused. This is known as the exclusionary rule, a prophylactic judicial ruling enforced on law enforcement officials in order to safeguard the legal rights assured by the 4th amendment. Although this is applicable to law enforcement officials nevertheless this doesn't cover private individuals. All private individual, so long as he or she gets damning proof may come ahead in the trial of a accused and whichever he or she hands over will become admissible as his acts are not lined by the 4th...