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unusual facts about Search and seizure


Search and seizure

This right is generally based on the premise that everyone is entitled to a reasonable right to privacy.


Osgood Castle

In 2003 the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) seized it, claiming he and another partner had purchased it with the proceeds from a Ponzi scheme in which they sold a thousand unsuspecting investors "prime bank notes" with a guaranteed 400% return, for a total of $56 million in fraudulent gains.


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Abdulameer Yousef Habeeb

Habeeb's attorneys charged that the agents had stopped Habeeb for his ethnic appearance, and that his detention violated his Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure.

Darryl Cherney

Cherney and the late Bari's estate were awarded $4.4 million for violations of the First Amendment (freedom of speech) and the Fourth Amendment (the right to be free from unlawful arrest and illegal search and seizure).

Race and the War on Drugs

The idea that minorities have to somehow “prove” that racial discrimination was being used during a search and seizure (United States v. Armstrong, 1996) and that the Equal Protection Law has been separated from the Fourth Amendment through successive court decisions leaves the accused at a disadvantage.