Why Isn't the Fourth Amendment Classified as Top Secret?

[C_Clayton_Jones]

No duh! The whole legal system profits from abusing the 5th Amendment or other laws, disrupting due process and equal justice in the guise of "defending clients interests."

As i read what you are saying here, you seem to think that defending those accused of crime is somehow an abuse of the 5th Amendment, Due Process, Equal Justice or "other laws." It works exactly the opposite. All of these things you mention are there to protect those accused of crime. The defense would have no reason whatsoever to want to "abuse" any of them. The defense ENFORCES these various protections against abuse by the police and the prosecution.

Sounds to me as if (1) you could never envision yourself ever being charged with a crime and (2) you do not believe that the police and/or the prosecution ever makes a mistake or, worse, intentionally proceeds against someone they know is not guilty. Fuzzy thinking on both counts.

Correct.

At its most fundamental, the 4th Amendment, with regard to criminal prosecution and procedural due process, prohibits law enforcement from illegally gathering evidence pursuant to the state seeking to take from a citizen his life or liberty.

With regard to civil law and substantive due process, the 4th Amendment enshrines a right to privacy where the state is prohibited from interfering in citizens’ personal matters.

Central to 4th Amendment jurisprudence is the doctrine of a reasonable expectation of privacy, when such an expectation does not exist, citizens are not entitled to Constitutional protections. The burden rests most heavily with the state, therefore, to acknowledge the circumstances in which citizens do have a reasonable expectation of privacy as determined by the courts.