Write a two-page paper analyzing the fact pattern presented
below. Please use federal law or North
Carolina state law. Your analysis should
include the application of the topics covered during the past seven weeks. For example, search and seizure, search
warrants, execution of warrants, exceptions to the warrant requirement,
exclusionary rule, Miranda rights, and the right against
self-incrimination. Do not restate the
facts in your paper, but rather identify the issues, analyze, and provide your
legal reasoning.
Ensure your citations are in APA or Bluebook format.
Chris is a police officer with the local Centerville Police
Department. She is in plain clothes and
knocked on the front door of Steve’s house and asked if she could enter to
enforce a valid warrant. The warrant was
a search warrant issued by Judge Wells from the Centerville District
Court. Judge Wells is a retired state
police trooper from the state police barracks in Centerville. The warrant indicated that “the first
floor of Steve’s house will be searched for a gun used in connection with a
robbery and jewelry, which was stolen.”
While searching the first floor of Steve’s house, Officer Chris smelled
what she thought was gun powder emanating from the second floor. Officer Chris immediately walked upstairs and
found a gun at the tops of the stairs.
She went to confiscate the gun and while doing so noticed a note
attached to the gun with an address on it.
The address was a known location for stolen jewelry to be pawned. During the search, Steve told Officer Chris
that, “I do not know what you are here for, because I did not rob Grubb’s
jewelry store.” Officer Chris asked
Steve to go to the police station and Steve agreed. As they walked into the police station, Judge
Wells yelled, “is that the person who robbed Grubb’s jewelry
store?” Steve replied, “I told
Officer Chris already, I did not rob Grubb’s jewelry store.”
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