Scruffy. sam in engaged in the criminal activity of growning marijuana in his home. a couple of police officers while randomly passing through the neighborhood saw sam go to the mailbox. they thought that he looked a little scruffy and they were concerned that they had not made a sufficient number of arrests in the past month. they decide to go "check out" sam. therefore, they immediately broke down sam's door, searched his home, and arrested him. the police officer in charge told sam that because marijuana was involved, he lost his rights against self-incrimination and that he might as well confess. sam proceeded to confess to growing marijuana and a number of other crimes. the judge was so angry with sam that he threw him in jail for two months without any kind of hearing. sam's lawyer, who just graduated from law school, is not sure if the police acted legally in sam's case by breaking down the door. which of the following is true on that issue?
a. the police acted legally so long as they can show that sam really did look scruffy
b. the police acted legally so long as they can show that the street was truly chosen at random for patrol
c. the police acted legally so long as they can show that sam had been in jail previously on a drug offense charge
d. the police acted legally so long as they can show that sam had been in jail previously for any offense
e. the police violated sam's fourth amendment rights

the answer is: E.  The police violated Sam's Fourth Amendment rights.

The fourth amendment protect the united citizens from  'unreasonable searches and seizures'.

The only time the police department can conduct a search in private property without a warrant is only if the Police received a 911 call from that private property, hearing screams or gunshots, or directly saw a criminal get into the property.

In the case, the police did not face any of those situations and still conducted a search without warrant. Which is why the police's action is considered as unreasonable searches and seizures.

elizabeth loftus conducted a study to observe the reliability of eyewitnesses during the 1970s. their baseline was to define how accurate are the recollections of eyewitnesses.

her studies do not support the use of eyewitness. loftus mentions in her work that we are not required to recall some experiences, meaning that rarely an individual eyewitness testimony is trustworthy. a good example is presented in her work, where all individuals watched a video and were than asked "about how fast were the cars going when they hit/smash? ". the testimonies changed based on the word she used to make the question (hit or smash), proving the fragility.

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demonstrating opportunity cost is done through production possibility.

the opportunity cost can be demonstrated using the production possibility frontier or curve. this graphic shows the total number of possibilities for two products when we have the resources needed and used in an efficient manner. the main resources could be money, labor, and technology. the curve shows that the production of one good increases when the production of the othe