Patriot Act Case Summary

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During a case in 2007 the Patriot Act came up as unconstitutional and as a violation of the fourth Amendment rights. Mayfield v. U.S began with a bombing in Spain. Fingerprints were found near the crime scene and after extensive forensic measures 20 candidates met the criteria for the matching fingerprint. One of these people was Mayfield who lived in Oregon. He never had committed a crime; he had not traveled out of the country since 1994, and was an honorable discharge army veteran. He was Muslim and it was later determined that this was one of the factors that led the FBI to choose him as a suspect. To summarize an extremely long process Mayfield was being blamed for the bombing even though his fingerprint was not a 100% match. Analysts