Word: jerseyed
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...surprising that the New Jersey Supreme Court found last year that school officials could only search student lockers with reasonable belief that such a search would provide evidence that the student engaged in activities that "materially disrupts classwork or involves substantial disorder or involves substantial disorder or invasion of the rights of others." More surprising still that the court found that "as the intrusiveness of the search intensifies, the standard of Fourth Amendment 'reasonableness' approaches probable cause." Translation to common language: The Fourth Amendment protection against arbitrary searches indeed extends beyond the schoolhouse gate; evidence obtained from such illegal searches...
...light of current trends, though, it is less surprising that the United States Supreme Court will consider an appeal of New Jersey's ruling this term. The Supreme court could effectively negate the rights upheld by the New Jersey Court by setting a "good faith" exemption for all evidence illegally seized, or by setting the particular standards for "reasonableness" in school searches cases are reasonably...
JEFFREY ENGERUD'S case, the basis for the New Jersey ruling, translates this abstract principle into an everyday applicable rule. Sometime in 1972, a vice principal Sommerville High School in New Jersey "heard" Jeff dealt in illegal drugs. One day a detective told this same vice-principal that an anonymous parent called police threatening to take matters into his own hands if Engerud kept pushing drugs on campus. With the rumor and an anonymous phone tip, administrators broke into Engerud's looker with a pass key, thoroughly searched it and indeed found a big of speed. Police arrested Engerud...
...student locker search cases, the schools cases wobble on particularly shaky ground. As the New Jersey court noted, found. "For four years, a student's locker is his home away from home." The administrators in New Jersey may have had a good instinct as their illegally seized evidence shows, but students still retain their rights. Again, the court. "He [the administrator] had, at best, a good hunch. No doubt hunches would unearth more evidence of crime on the persons of students or citizens as a whole. But more is needed to sustain a search." In effect, searching a student...
...John Dailey had a ligament taken out of his knee Thursday. He is doubtful for Saturday's game at Brown. Quarterback Brian White is still out after doctors removed a blood clot from his throwing arm...Azelby had 12 tackles and five assists. "I like beating the boys from Jersey," he said, explaining that he knew Tiger tailback Ralph Ferraro from his high school days in the Garden State. At the Stadium Princeton 0 7 6 13--26 Harvard...