The following excerpt is from United States v. Galpin, Docket No. 11-4808-cr (2nd Cir. 2013):
The chief evil that prompted the framing and adoption of the Fourth Amendment was the "indiscriminate searches and seizures" conducted by the British "under the authority of 'general warrants.'" Payton v. New York, 445 U.S. 573, 583 (1980); Arizona v. Gant, 556 U.S. 332, 345 (2009) ("[T]he central concern underlying the Fourth Amendment [is] the concern
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