Submit 5 separate answers (i.e., do not write one long essay that touches on all five questions). Each answer should be about a page, but no longer than 2 pages. Make sure to include appropriate in-text citations and high quality sources to corroborate your answers.
Answer these questions:
Discuss the process through which the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of due process of law eventually resulted in virtually all the rights contained in the U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights becoming applicable not only to the federal government, but all the individual states as well.
Discuss the concept of expectation of privacy in the context of modern 4th Amendment analysis.
Discuss the special issue of probable cause in the context of pretextual police activity.
Discuss the various situations when the police can legally search vehicles, passengers, “containers” in vehicles, etc.
Discuss the concept of plain view, including its requirements, situations where it commonly comes into play, its extensions, etc.
