Criminal Justice

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This paper examines the integral aspect of American legal codes to maintain the rights of the accused until a time in which they are found guilty in a court of law. It then explores a civil rights case and gives two possible rulings by the court (depending on whether or not a search was found to be legal), substantiated by previous Supreme Court rulings on similar cases.

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"Criminal Justice Unifying Themes In the study of law enforcement and criminal justice, it is an integral aspect of American legal codes to maintain the rights of the accused until a time in which they are found guilty in a court of law. In the current case study, the problem defined in the case is whether the officer had the right to search the car based upon plausible cause. It is accepted that officers have the ability to escalate search options when they are given due cause to do so, and the "line of sight" option is one of the reasons given by officers who have approached a potential scene and found cause to escalate the search; when evidence of illegal activities is within the officer's life of sight, this provides legal justification to escalate the search."

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