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It says so right in the 4th amendment "...and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing th
by UncleEntity 8y ago
It says so right in the 4th amendment "...and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
A warrant to search "your archive of business correspondence" or "your archive of love letters" is fine, reading those things while serving a warrant for your neighbors' stolen cat, Fluffy, not so much.
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- Terr_ 8y ago> A warrant to search "your archive of business correspondence" or "your archive of love letters" is fine But that's not what qwerty456127 proposed. They proposed an "absolute" right to secrecy of all correspondence. In other words, you could catch a murderer covered in blood and you would be impossible to ever get legal permission to open the sealed envelope marked "Payment For The Job" that was in their back-pocket.