Topic
Exigent Circumstances (Deliberate or Lawful?)
Instructions:
What are the central arguments in the reading? What data sources and/or sources does the author use to support the argument?
What other lines of reasoning or thinking occur to you as a result of reading this selection? What is it about the chapters that interest you?
What are the strengths and weaknesses of the articles or book chapters? If you were studying this issue, what would you have done similarly or differently?
As you write your critical essay, you should select one or two concepts, issues, themes, problems, questions to orient your essay. The essay should reflect your thoughtful engagement with issues you chose.
The essay may take a form of an analysis of what is at stake in the debates or it may entail comments/critiques of specific arguments in the readings.
The critical essay may be a critical examination of how the course material connects with your own perspective.
Answer preview
According to the United States Supreme Court, the fourth amendment states that when police are conducting searches and seizures, it is paramount that they obtain a warrant for it. The court however, has many exceptions for this rule, one of them being that a situation could present itself that if the police do not act immediately, it could result in the removal or the destruction of evidence. This can happen if the police delay in the search or seizure in order to obtain a warrant, and so these circumstances will require that a search be conducted or a seizure be carried out without a warrant.
Word count: 1050