Conference Materials

 

2012 Appellate Judge Fourth Amendment Conference
April 12-13, 2012

Agenda

Fourth Amendment Structure - Powerpoint; Memo

Fourth Amendment Applicability: individual protected interests

Fourth Amendment Applicability: governmental activities labeled "searches"

Recent Developments - The Exclusionary Rule - Powerpoint; Handout

Fourth Amendment Satisfaction: Reasonableness Models

Digital Evidence Locations and Computer Forensics, parts 1 & 2

Fourth Amendment Applicability: Expectations of Privacy "Inside the Box"

Fourth Amendment Satisfaction: Competing Views of the Nature of Digital Evidence Searches

"Outside the Box": Internet and Network Technology

Legal Framework Regulating Outside the Box Investigations: Case study and statutory overview
Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 Outline

Fourth Amendment Framework Regulating Outside the Box Investigations

Technology Framework - Tracking Technologies: Cell phone; Beepers; GPS; Cell Site Information

Legal Framework - Tracking Technologies: Cell phone; Beepers; GPS; Cell Site Information

Additional source materials

Thomas K. Clancy, The Fourth Amendment: Its History and Interpretation
(Carolina Academic Press 2008).

Treatise Supplement: Summary of Current Supreme Court Cases
This supplement is periodically updated. Current version updated on March 27, 2012.

United States v. Jones

Thomas K. Clancy, The Fourth Amendment Aspects of Computer Searches and Seizures: A Perspective and a Primer, 75 Miss. L.J. 193 (2005).