Criminal Procedure Law

Driving Off the Face of the Fourth Amendment:
Weighing Caballes Under the Proposed ‘Vehicular Frisk’ Standard

ILSU Working Paper No. 2008-09/EN (forthcoming in Valparaiso University Law Review, vol. 43, 2008)
by CHRISTOPHER M. PARDO

This paper explores and explains the socioeconomic and racial effects of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Caballes decision. While society charges law enforcement with eliminating illegal drug activity, the Fourth Amendment rights of every American citizen must also be respected. [...]