Search Incident to Arrest Warrant Good Even When Warrant Stale

Steven J. Richardson | January 20, 2009

Under the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, citizens are protected from unreasonable searches and seizures of their “persons, papers, houses and effects.”  Reasonableness is considered to exist only when there is “probable cause.”   Should law enforcement violate this right, the evidence found can be subject to suppression, i.e. not admissible in evidence against you.  [...]