Reference no: EM13188478

Assignment Name: Unit 3 Individual Project 
Deliverable Length: 4-6 pages 
Details: A senior federal agent is assigned as the division training officer responsible for providing/coordinating in-service training for the agents in the division along with the local police officers assigned to work on a federal task force. You are assisting in preparing the curriculum for an upcoming two-week class for approximately 30 officers. One of the most important sections of the course will center on the various types of searches authorized by federal law and what is necessary to legally support those searches. You have been directed to include the following elements:

Please answer the following questions and requirement to write your 4-6 page paper. As you answer each question, you must provide support or evidence that will enhance and empirically prove your answers. Academic criminal justice articles or real-life criminal justice findings that are not found in journals or other academic sources must be cited in supporting your answers. Please use APA style for all cited sources including your resource page.

•A discussion on the process by which a search warrant is sought and issued, emphasizing the Fourth Amendment requirements. 
•Define probable cause and the standard by which probable cause is met. 
•Describe and discuss at least 2 types of searches that do not require a warrant. 
•Address the following questions: 

a.What is the rationale for allowing warrantless searches? 
b.Are those reasons persuasive?
c.Do all such searches require that probable cause exist or are there exceptions? 
Please submit your assignment. 

For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.

Unit Materials 



Points Possible: 125 
Date Due: Sunday, Oct 23, 2011 
Objective: •Identify and define the various components of the criminal justice system
•Explain and analyze the relationships between law enforcement, the judicial system and corrections

Submitted Files: Submit Assignment 
Score: N/A 
Instructor Comments: I will be expecting original research and more importantly original writing for this assignment. High Similarity Scores may indicate plagiarism which cannot be graded. If you think it is too high you should consider re-writing what you understood from reading the sources.

I will be looking for explanations of the following:
•The student should be able to provide the steps of obtaining a search warrant. Upon investigation of a crime, evidence is compiled and is presented to an Assistant United Sates Attorney (AUSA). The AUSA prepares an application requesting a magistrate or judge to issue a warrant based upon probable cause presented in the agent's affidavit. The judge, a "neutral and detached magistrate" then decides if probable cause exists that evidence of the alleged offense will be found in the premises specified in the warrant application. 
•The student should then discuss the types of searches that do not require warrants (but may or may not require probable cause) such as vehicle searches (pursuant to the vehicle exception), and administrative searches.
•Students must support and provide examples and justifications in answering the questions through academic or real-life criminal justice findings focused on criminal justice subjects.
•All cited material must be in APA style.