What is the test for reasonable conduct in the context of the Fourth Amendment?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Dyke, 224 Cal.App.3d 648, 274 Cal.Rptr. 66 (Cal. App. 1990):
"It is apparent that in order to satisfy the 'reasonableness' requirement of the Fourth Amendment, what is generally demanded of the many factual determinations that must regularly be made by agents of the government--whether the magistrate issuing a warrant, the police officer executing a warrant, or the police officer conducting a search or seizure under one of the exceptions to the warrant requirement--is not that they always be correct, but that they always be reasonable. As we put it in Brinegar v. United States, 338 U.S. 160, 176 [69 S.Ct. 1302, 1311, 93 L.Ed. 1879] ... (1949):
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