context: . This concept of disproportionality is not foreign to Fourth Amendment analysis. "The logic of distinguishing between minor and serious offenses in evaluating the reasonableness of ... searches is almost too clear for argument."
citation_a.signal: but cf.
citation_a.parenthetical: finding an arrestee's charges to be irrelevant to the blanket constitutionality of searches incident to arrest
citation_a.sentence: New Jersey v. T.L.O., 469 U.S. 325, 380, 105 S.Ct. 733, 83 L.Ed.2d 720 (1985) (Stevens, J., concurring & dissenting) (discussing the scope of school searches); cf. Welsh v. Wisconsin, 466 U.S. 740, 750, 104 S.Ct. 2091, 80 L.Ed.2d 732 (1984) ("[A] finding of exigent circumstances to justify a warrantless home entry should be severely restricted when only a minor offense has been committed .... ”); McDonald v. United States, 335 U.S. 451, 459, 69 S.Ct. 191, 93 L.Ed. 153 (1948) (Jackson, J., concurring) ("It is to me a shocking proposition that private homes ... may be indiscriminately invaded at the discretion of any suspicious police officer engaged in following up offenses that involve no violence or threats of it.”); but cf. United States v. Robinson, 414 U.S. 218, 234-35, 94 S.Ct. 467, 38 L.Ed.2d 427 (1973) (finding an arrestee's charges to be irrelevant to the blanket constitutionality of searches incident to arrest).
citation_b.signal: cf.
citation_b.identifier: 466 U.S. 740, 750
citation_b.parenthetical: "[A] finding of exigent circumstances to justify a warrantless home entry should be severely restricted when only a minor offense has been committed .... "
citation_b.sentence: New Jersey v. T.L.O., 469 U.S. 325, 380, 105 S.Ct. 733, 83 L.Ed.2d 720 (1985) (Stevens, J., concurring & dissenting) (discussing the scope of school searches); cf. Welsh v. Wisconsin, 466 U.S. 740, 750, 104 S.Ct. 2091, 80 L.Ed.2d 732 (1984) ("[A] finding of exigent circumstances to justify a warrantless home entry should be severely restricted when only a minor offense has been committed .... ”); McDonald v. United States, 335 U.S. 451, 459, 69 S.Ct. 191, 93 L.Ed. 153 (1948) (Jackson, J., concurring) ("It is to me a shocking proposition that private homes ... may be indiscriminately invaded at the discretion of any suspicious police officer engaged in following up offenses that involve no violence or threats of it.”); but cf. United States v. Robinson, 414 U.S. 218, 234-35, 94 S.Ct. 467, 38 L.Ed.2d 427 (1973) (finding an arrestee's charges to be irrelevant to the blanket constitutionality of searches incident to arrest).