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Fourth Amendment protection

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From 333 U.S. 10 - Johnson v. United States · 1948Most cited · 7,793 citing opinions

The point of the Fourth Amendment... is not that it denies law enforcement the support of the usual inferences which reasonable men draw from evidence. Its protection consists in requiring that those inferences be drawn by a neutral and detached magistrate instead of being judged by the officer engaged in the often competitive enterprise of ferreting out crime.

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