Waiver Of Search Right Is Upheld

By Dawn Chase
Published: February 16, 1998

A defendant can waive his Fourth Amendment rights in a plea-bargain agreement, the en banc Court of Appeals has ruled. The defendant had waived his "right against unreasonable searches and seizures" for one year when he pled guilty to having a gun on school property. Several months after the waiver, police searched him and found drugs ...

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