The Bill of Rights and the 14th AmendmentThird and Fourth Amendments |
Must government officials always obtain a warrant before conducting a search or a seizure? |
No, there are several exceptions to the warrant requirement. Some of these include: searches of public school students, exigent circumstances, hot pursuit, plain view, plain feel, consent searches (where an individual has given consent to a government official to search), search incident to arrest, automobile exception, border-search exception, open fields, and stop and frisk.