Professor Cynthia Lee will discuss the Container Doctrine, a rule established by the Supreme Court in the 1970s that allows police officers with probable cause to believe that a suitcase, footlocker, or other container contains contraband or evidence of a crime to seize the container, but requires police to get a warrant before opening or searching the container. Professor Lee theorizes that the Court's gradual movement away from requiring warrants before searching containers reflects a larger jurisprudential shift from the Warrant Preference view of the Fourth Amendment towards the Separate Clauses or Reasonableness view of the Fourth Amendment.
The Fourth Amendment's Disappearing Container Doctrine: From Warrant Preference to Reasonableness with Teeth
October 14, 20105:00 p.m.
Criminal Justice Forum I
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
2121 Euclid Avenue - LB138
Cleveland, Ohio 44115
Cynthia Lee
Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School
1 free hour of CLE.
http://www.law.csuohio.edu/newsevents
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