Technology has advanced over the past decade, providing law enforcement officials with new ways of gathering criminal evidence. However, these tools have raised some constitutional questions. An individual from Oregon with the initials DLK was involved in a case which had people wondering if agents violated his fourth amendment rights. Federal agents suspected that DLK was growing marijuana inside of his home, which drove agents to scan his house using a thermal scanner which showed heat just like the kind that is generated by using special lights in growing marijuana. A judge then issued agents a search warrant to check the home where they found 100 marijuana plants. DLK was arrested for illegally growing marijuana in his home. Many people believe that federal agents violated …show more content…
Considering that marijuana is illegal, people cannot grow the plants outside forcing them to be grown indoors. However, marijuana is still a plant which means it requires natural light. Pot growers cannot place the plants near windows due to outside exposure, which means the use of artificial lights are needed. Artificial lights simulate sunlight, so by using them, the marijuana plants are able to grow big and tall as if the plants are outside. The only problem is the artificial lights produce a tremendous amount of excess heat, causing pot growers to vent this excess heat somewhere outside the growing room. The picture, produced by the thermal imager, showed an abnormal loss of heat in certain areas of DLK’s house. Due to pot growers having to vent the excess heat out of the growing room, the heat escapes to outside the house. Considering the thermal imager picked up massive amounts of heat escaping from inside the house, authorities concluded that DLK must be growing marijuana. Unless DLK had the heat turned all the up and all the windows opened, then it seems quite obvious that he was up to no
Claiming the thermal evidence was a violation of the fourth amendment right, your right to privacy within your home and to legal searches. After this case was sent to the Supreme Court, which I agree is where this case belonged, they found that the lower courts judgments were wrong in admitting this evidence. And after reading the facts of the case fully and Justice Scalia’s court opinion, I would have to agree that this case requires further inquiry into the original intent of the fourth amendment. I think that we as citizens do have a right to privacy within are home, however I think that if someone is doing something illegal within their home then there should be proper measurements that are taken to stop them. The reason I think the court should have ruled in the way they did is because this is a case where is begs the question how far can someone go using technology to obtain information that normally would have caused the officer to break the law to
According to the Fourth Amendment, people have the right to be secure in their private property, and may only be searched with probable cause. However, in a recent case, this right was violated by the government. An Oregon citizen, with the initials of DLK, was suspected of growing marijuana in his home. The federal government used a thermal imager to scan his home, and were later given a warrant to physically search his home. However, many remain divided over whether or not this scan was constitutional, as there was no warrant at the time of the scan.
Our founding fathers created the Bill Of Rights which are the first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States. One of the most important amendments is the Fourth Amendment. It states “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized”(p. 11). What are our founding fathers were trying to do is keep our country from a police state, a state in which law enforcement could enter our homes without probable cause. This protection provides the citizens of the
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The use of the thermal imager violated DLK’s fourth amendment right. Even though DLK’s acts were illegal, the process of arresting him violated his 4th amendment right due to the fact that the imager goes enhances the eyes ability, the evidence was not disappearing, and the scanning reveals details that can only be found by going in a given house. The first reason DLK’s fourth amendment right is infringed is due to the fact that the thermal imager goes heightens the eyes ability. Document D states “Thermal imaging is extrasensory and permits the police to “see” what is invisible to the naked eye.
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