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New Jersey VS. TLO 1984

During Ronald Reagan's presidency he was trying to eliminate drug use and was harshly punishing people for using any drug. New Jersey VS. TLO was a case on march 28th, 1984 and went until Jan 15th, 1985. TLO was a highschooler that went to Piscataway High school and was stopped in the hall after being found smoking in the school bathrooms with a different student they were both pulled into the principles office and the other student admitted to smoking whilst TLO didn't so a police officer at the school searched her purse and found a small amount of weed, cigarettes, and a list of people that owe her money. TLO in court used the argument that the fourth amendment was violated because they did not have a warrant nor reasonable cause to search her purse. It was a 6-3 vote and the vote was that new Jersey met the amount of "Reasonableness" needed to search someone. TLO was sentenced to one year of probation and was seen as a delinquent.