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The Fourth Amendment restricts the government or anyone acting as an agent of the government from entering some ones’ home to conduct a search or seizure without a search warrant. It also ensures that the people are “secure in their persons, papers and effects against unreasonable searches”, unless a Warrant has been obtained after probable cause has been established. This was written in 1791, however as time passed and the nation grew, the United States Supreme Court recognized that there are times when exceptions to the Fourth Amendment’s requirement of a search warrant are made. My paper will examine and explain these exceptions to the search warrant requirement of the Fourth Amendment. As a general rule in cases relating to searches and seizures, any property seized by the police without a search warrant will not be admitted into court as evidence, unless a search warrant was obt