New Jersey Vs. T. L. O Case Study

New Jersey vs. T.L.O a case that came to court in 1985, a teacher from the Piscataway, New Jersey high school found two girls in a bathroom smoking. The teacher decided to take the two girls to the principal's office. The two girls knew each other from school. Since T.L.O did not admit to smoking, the principal demanded to see her purse and what was inside of it. As the principal searched, she found marijuana in her purse. T.L.O was then taken to the police station. When T.L.O was taken to the police station she confessed to selling marijuana, however she did not confess to smoking. According to New Jersey v. T.L.O. Podcast, ¨United States Courts, in a juvenile court, T.L.O. argued that her Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable searches and seizures had been violated. The court sided with the school, and T.L.O. took her case to the New

Also the principal did not contact the parents as as well. Although the State had argued in the Supreme Court of New Jersey that the search of T.L.O.'s purse did not violate the Fourth Amendment, the petition for certiorari raised only the question whether the exclusionary rule should operate to bar consideration in juvenile delinquency proceedings of evidence unlawfully seized by a school official without the involvement of law enforcement officers.

When this case was first argued last term, the State stated “The purpose of argument that the standard devised by the New Jersey Supreme Court for determining the legality of school searches was appropriate and that the court had correctly applied that standard. The State contended only that the remedial purposes of the exclusionary rule were not well served by applying it to searches conducted by public authorities not primarily engaged in law enforcement.” as reported by