The Importance Of The Bill Of Rights In The United States

On December 15th, 1971 the Bill of Rights was incorporated into the United States Constitution. The Bill of Rights is where one can find most of the procedural or due process rights given to criminal suspects in the United States of America (Bohm & Haley 2012). The United States Constitution is the foundation of which America was built on and is what grants Americans freedom. When I joined the United States Military I took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States from all enemies foreign and domestic and it is something I would die for. The fourth, fifth, sixth and, eighth amendment are very important to each United States citizen including criminals. The Fourth Amendment establishes a right that assures the security of the people in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unconstrained governmental searches and seizures (GRAY 2016). This means that an officer must develop probable cause that a crime has been committed and therefore must acquire a search warrant to conduct a search of a person, houses, papers, and effects. The government must also possess probable cause to seize any person or property. There is a rule that helps discourage the government from violating peoples fourth amendment rights called the exclusionary rule (Bohm & Haley 2012). This rule

According to (Khan 2016), when an individual’s Fifth Amendment right has been violated on double jeopardy, a flaw exists in the criminal justice system. The Fifth Amendment also guarantees that a criminal or defendant does not have to testify against himself therefore, self-incriminating himself. In the Supreme Court case, Miranda v. Arizona (1966) the government increased the protection against self-incrimination that mainly was focused on police interrogations (Bohm & Haley