What is the test for reasonable search and seizure under the Fourth Amendment?

MultiRegion, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Williams v. Bishop, Case No. 1:13-CV-01087-AWI-SMS (E.D. Cal. 2013):

The Fourth Amendment provides, in pertinent part, that "[t]he right of the people to be secure in their persons, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated . . . . ." The Fourth Amendment is applicable to the states through the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643, 655 (1961). No search or seizure, reasonable or unreasonable, occurred under the alleged facts.

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