The case New Jersey v. T.L.O of 1985 surrounds the event at Piscataway High School in which two girls were found smoking in a school restroom. Yet this was not a designated smoking area in the school so the girls were taken to the Vice President of the high School’s Office where they were questioned about the issue. The girl in which this case pertains to, T.L.O, denied smoking so Mr.Choplick the vice president decided to search the 14 year old girls purse to find the cigarettes that they caught her smoking. Eventually after searching through her bag Mr.Choplick found the Cigarettes he set out to find yet during the search Choplick discovered rolling papers which are known to be a drug related item. So Mr.Choplick extended the search of T.L.O …show more content…
Choplick. The fact that T.L.O is a minor is no excuse to exclude the 4th Amendment from her; she still has the right to resist an unreasonable search. In this case Mr.Choplick did conduct an unreasonable search seeing that T.L.O was caught by a school official to be smoking and the full search seems to only been made to prove a point of the already inevitable truth. Also the fact that the possession of cigarettes abided by the school rules proves that the search was useless. Although T.L.O did claim that she didn’t smoke it isn’t a justifiable reason to search her seeing that even if she did or didn’t have them it wouldn’t be very punishable in the schools case. The school also never mentioned if there had been any contracts or policies which allowed them to administer searches when they deemed necessary, so this argues that the search done on T.L.O was unlawfully brought upon her. So overall the initial purpose of the search was clearly uncalled for and a violation of T.L.O’s rights seeing that she didn’t give consent to the Mr.Choplick to administer the