Law School for Teens - Police Searches and the 4th Amendment

When do the police need to have a search warrant? How do the police get a search warrant? What happens if the police don’t follow the right procedures when they get a search warrant?

This topic, called Criminal Procedure in law school, is about the set of rules that police must follow when the government enforces the law. 

At the federal level, criminal procedure rules will protect the guarantees within the Constitution's Bill of Rights, such as the right to due process and equal protection, the right to legal counsel, the right to confront a witness, the right to a jury trial, and the right not to testify against oneself.

This class will do a high school level walk through of the 4th amendment and the 5th amendment (as it connects to criminal procedure), and mention the 6th amendment. 

The videos will have a handout that students will use to think through the fact patterns to understand the topics presented.

This class will start to explore various cases from the Supreme Court that further clarify the amendments and how they are applied to our everyday lives. We will look at famous cases like Katz v. United States, Mapp v. Ohio, Terry v. Ohio, and Miranda v. Arizona among several others.