Fourth Amendment

noun

1. an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, prohibiting unlawful search and seizure of personal property.

Example Sentences

“Inmates don’t have a Fourth Amendment expectation of privacy in prison. Guards can search his cell without probable cause or a warrant,” she said, adding that there is a process to handle potentially privileged materials found during a search.

From Los Angeles Times

Mr Barnes’s mother, Janice Hughes Barnes, sued on her son’s behalf, arguing the deadly use of force against her son was unreasonable and violated his Fourth Amendment rights, which protect people from unreasonable searches and seizures by the government.

From BBC

The judges found that Officer Felix had behaved reasonably under the Fourth Amendment's "moment of threat" doctrine, which asks whether the officer had been in danger at the moment he used force.

From BBC

If he had been allowed to consider the "totality of circumstances", Judge Higginbotham said, he would have found the officer had violated Mr Barnes's Fourth Amendment rights.

From BBC

Vanderbilt University professor Christopher Slobogin said that assuming the warrant was valid, the FBI did not violate the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures.

From Salon