Annotated bibliography

annotated bib. 1:

Linder, Doug. "Exploring Constitutional Law." UMKC School of Law. 2001-11. Web. 01 Apr. 2011. .

This website was full of useful information such as various court cases across many topics. it provided an abundant resource of information about a few court cases that dealt with issues such as my topic (student searches). it also specifically referenced the Sarah Redding case and Vernonia case. It showed which sides were which, the controversy as well as arguments behind them, the winner and then some. This information was specifically helpful when creating the court cases blog post we were assigned. The Redding case was highly controversial and explained how inappropriately far school officials went in searching her for ibuprofen. Their argument was just that they were only trying to protect the other students by obtaining the contraband. This website even provided questions that came up in this case and argued both sides.

annotated bib. 2:

Turner LLC, Duff. "Individualized Suspicion Required For Student Searches." Law Library | Legal Professional. Web. 03 Apr. 2011.

This article spoke of the DesRoches court case that occurred last fall, and how it was unlawful to search DesRoches for another student’s tennis shoes. In the case, DesRoches and 18 other students are being searched for the shoes; the other students consented to the search, DesRoches did not. He decided to take this to court. DesRoches sued the school for violation of the 4th amendment under the terms that it was unlawful to do so, and the officials of his school did not have "individualized suspicion" to search him. The article went into detail about individualized suspicion, what it was, why officials needed it to search students, ect. .

annotated bib. 3:

Fox, Brian. Personal Interview. 5 April 2011.

Officer Fox spoke answered a lot of my questions about individualized suspicion and different search types. He also answered a few questions roaming around in my head that have come up in my research a bit but I was kind of confused about. These things include who has more power when searching and who would search who in different scenarios. He is a police officer so he deals with things like this all the time and he had a lot of very well thought out answers for my questions.

annotated bib. 4:

Jiron, Justin. Telephone Interview. 7 April 2011.

Mr. Jiron works in the field in which he prosecutes criminals in the court of law. Mr. Jiron gave great answers to my last bit of confusing questions that may have required a little bit more experience in court to answer than my previous interviewee. He went into detail using his past experiences and provided me with an abundance of intelligent answers to all of them.