Blog

As our recent blog posts have made clear, the protections that the Fourth Amendment offers to American citizens has serious gaps in it, and perhaps the widest among these gaps is the third party doctrine. By allowing the government to obtain information or other physical materials that you have voluntarily

One of the biggest ways that law enforcement can get around your Fourth Amendment rights is by gathering evidence without conducting a “search.” If it’s not objectively reasonable for you to assume that something will be kept private, then the police can get it and use it as evidence without

One of the most important Amendments to the United States Constitution, especially when it comes to your rights as a U.S. citizen in the eyes of law enforcement, is the Fourth Amendment. This Amendment prohibits the government – both the federal and the state – from conducting searches that are

The Fourth Amendment prohibits searches and seizures that are unreasonable. While a lot of work as a criminal defense attorney revolves around what it means for a search or seizure to be “unreasonable,” there’s another question that comes up less often, but is just as important: What is a “search”?

One of the trickier things about the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition of “unreasonable searches and seizures” is whether an act by the government actually constitutes a “search” or a “seizure.” If law enforcement finds evidence of a crime, but did not technically “search” for it, then the Fourth Amendment doesn’t protect