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University of Michigan Law School

Law Enforcement and Corrections

Journal

1995

Fourth Amendment

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Response: The Problems With Privacy's Problem, Louis Michael Seidman Mar 1995

Response: The Problems With Privacy's Problem, Louis Michael Seidman

Michigan Law Review

A Response to William J. Stuntz's "Privacy's Problem and the Law of Criminal Procedure"


Reply, William J. Stuntz Mar 1995

Reply, William J. Stuntz

Michigan Law Review

A Reply to Louis Michael Seidman's Response


Privacy's Problem And The Law Of Criminal Procedure, William J. Stuntz Mar 1995

Privacy's Problem And The Law Of Criminal Procedure, William J. Stuntz

Michigan Law Review

Part I of this article addresses the connection between privacy-based limits on police authority and substantive limits on government power as a general matter. Part II briefly addresses the effects of that connection on Fourth and Fifth Amendment law, both past and present. Part ID suggests that privacy protection has a deeper problem: it tends to obscure more serious harms that attend police misconduct, harms that flow not from information disclosure but from the police use of force. The upshot is that criminal procedure would be better off with less attention to privacy, at least as privacy is defined in …