New Jersey Vs Tlo Case Study

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In the Supreme Court Case New Jersey v. T.L.O, it was argued that an Assistant Vice Principal broke a student’s Fourth Amendment rights when searching through her belongings. In nineteen-eighty, two students were found smoking cigarettes in the restroom. This violated the New Jersey school’s policies, so the two teenage girls were taken to the Principal’s office. The one girl admitted to smoking the cigarettes, but the other denied participating. She was brought into the Assistant Vice Principal’s office where he searched her purse. He found a box of cigarettes and rolling papers. She was reported to the authorities for dealing marijuana based off of the rolling papers found inside her purse. After confessing to selling the illegal substance,

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