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=The 4th Amendment=  Americans cannot have their personal property searched without a proper warrant and just cause.

Description
 This Amendment means all of the things that are yours cannot be searched without a warrant saying they can.

Historical Applications
 Not every search and seizure that is in state and federal court raises a Fourth Amendment issue. The fourth amendment is only directed towards searches and seizures that are conducted by government. Surveillance and investigatory actions taken strictly by private people such as private investigators, spouses, or neighbors, aren't governed by the fourth amendment. However fourth amendment concerns arise when those actions are taken by someone working with the law. T he exclusionary rule enables courts to exclude incriminating evidence from introduction at trial upon proof that the evidence was procured in contravention of a constitutional provision. The rule allows defendants to challenge the admissibility of evidence by bringing a pre-trial motion to suppress the evidence. If the court allows the evidence to be introduced at trial and the jury votes to convict, the defendant can challenge the propriety of the trial court's decision denying the motion to suppress on appeal. If the defendant succeeds on appeal, however, the Supreme Court has ruled that double jeopardy principles do not bar retrial of the defendant because the trial court's error did not go to the question of guilt or innocence. Nonetheless, obtaining a conviction in the second trial would be significantly more difficult if the evidence suppressed by the exclusionary rule is important to the prosecution. Found at [] and  []

Today's Application
 Today this amendment still applies, it applies to business place  for the purpose of health, safety, or security regulations. An example is if you are in school and you have a backpack they are aloud to search in it for anything that could be harmful to students of staff because they are trying to make the school a place that is comfortable for kids to come and feel safe. Another situation is if there is a police officer and he sees a few guys in front of the store and he thinks they are going to rob it, he isn't aloud to search them to see if they have guns or weapons because that is a unnecessary search that is protected by the 4th amendment.