"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
This article is about a man who wrote an article about how a man found the new IPhone 4 and he showed off all the new features. A representative from Apple asked for the phone after seeing the post , written by Chen. He obeyed Apple's request and sent back this phone. The article states " The search warrant alleges the property seized may have been used as the means of committing a felony", this led to the police breaking in and searching Chen's house. This also caused a problem because the California and U.S. law protects journalist property from being searched.
This connects to the Constitution because of the Fourth Amendment which states the police does not have the right to search someones property without a warrant. This story demonstrates this amendment because the police searched Chen's house with this warrant. Even though the law protects journalists property from being searched it still shows how warrants work in the United States.
I don't know what to think of this article because it doesn't seem like Chen did anything wrong at all. I believe that it was the representatives fought for leaving the IPhone, they should have never searched his house in the first place. I think they had something against him in the first place. They had no reason to believe he was doing anything in the wrong, other than the IPhone incident in which he returned the phone with no troubles at all. This was not over a stupid phone it had some other purpose to it that we will never know.
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