Fourth Amendment in Motion
Instructions:
Answer the following questions:
- At that juncture, did Officer Tyler have the right to make the request?
- Did Mike have the right to refuse?
- What can Officer Tyler do, if anything, after the refusal?
- What if Mike then turned and ran from the officer after yelling, “You have no right to ask me to do anything, I was just walking to school and I am scared of you”?
- What if, when running, Mike pulled from his pocket and threw away what appeared to be a small bag of cocaine?
Special Instructions:
Create 1 page essay in APA format and incorporate both the questions above, as well as the following below. Explain the substantive and procedural interpretations of individual freedoms based on case analysis. Document philosophical underpinnings and public policy influences associated with U.S. Supreme Court decisions. Use 2 scholarly sources for references. Be sure to use in-text citations.
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‘At that juncture, did Officer Tyler have the right to make the request?’
The officer has the obligation to make a request from mike which is his role of keeping law and order, the fact that mike’s size is disguising and appear nervous at the officer, the officer would not have assumed that he is a college student so he had to do the honorable thing to request mike for his ID as required by the federal law of the united state. The officer is trained to identify any change of behavior that may trigger a criminal offense from an individual. The officer is in his jurisdiction mandate (Kyllonen, Simmons-Ehrhardt & Monson, 2017).
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